After New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy held his last weekly COVID-19 briefing Friday, he sat down with MegBakerTV to look back on the past two years of the pandemic as we transition into an endemic.
The governor's weekly updates come to an end as COVID moves from a pandemic to an endemic.
"Endemic to me is the flu. That's the way I think about it. It never goes to zero. It's in our midst, but we can live a normal life with it in our midst and responsibly," Murphy said."Do we get an annual booster shot like I get every October for flu? I don't think folks know answer to that yet but that's a possibility."
"What are the top two things that government has to do to come back, and what are the top two things that residents can do to come back?" Baker asked. "Oh my lord, OK. So government, I would say, learn from this. And then secondly, I think we gotta make sure that we get as fulsome a recovery economically as we possibly can, and the budget that I'm gonna present next week has lot of stuff in that that would do that," Murphy said."Residents, what should they be doing? Enjoy normalcy. Celebrate. Do it responsibly. And I would say secondly, a little bit of a cautionary, there's no playbook for this.
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