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Former CDC director Tom Frieden tells the Axios Re:Cap podcast that "COVID is here to stay," as part of a discussion of the highly contagious Delta variant that's becoming the country's dominant strain of the coronavirus. 

Ex-CDC director: “COVID is here to stay”

Tom Frieden explains why the Delta variant matters.

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Axios Re:Cap

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