Ask The Expert: President tests positive for COVID, does that put the spotlight back on the disease?

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On Thursday, the White House announced that the President tested positive for COVID. He's fully vaccinated and boosted, and he's feeling only minor symptoms. The White House says he's isolating for the next week, but he will keep working. It always happens that when someone famous comes down with this disease, it shines a spotlight on COVID that has dimmed over the last few months. Is that the case this time?

On today's Ask The Expert, Dr. Thomas Giordano joined us. He's the chief of infectious disease at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston

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