Coronavirus Watch Now: COVID-19 and the New Normal?

August 31, 2021
By Perry World House

Students are returning to campus, commuters are heading back to the office, travel is picking up – as fall 2021 begins, the United States appears to be gradually returning to a “new normal” of sorts. But could the Delta variant and other strains of the coronavirus put this fragile balance at risk?

To kick off a new academic year for Perry World House’s weekly The World Today series, Paul Offit, Susan Weiss, and Jennifer Pinto-Martin - leading medical experts in vaccine development, epidemiology, and public health -discussed how COVID-19 variants arise, how effective current vaccines might be against them, and how public health measures may evolve as we learn to live with COVID-19.

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