If you want a picture of the future, imagine a needle jabbing a human arm — forever.
White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday in an interview with PBS NewsHour that the United States is no longer in "the pandemic phase" of the COVID-19 virus but that Americans might need to be vaccinated "every year" in order to keep virus levels low.
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