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News Wrap: Pfizer forecasts pandemic will last until 2024

News Wrap: Pfizer forecasts COVID-19 pandemic will last until 2024

Aired 12/17/2021

PBS News Hour

News Wrap: Pfizer forecasts pandemic will last until 2024

Clip: 12/17/2021 | 3m 50sVideo has Closed Captions

News Wrap: Pfizer forecasts COVID-19 pandemic will last until 2024

In our news wrap Friday, Pfizer, in light of the new omicron variant, forecast the pandemic will last until 2024. Russia published demands that NATO get out of central and eastern Europe, and deny membership to Ukraine. The U.S. Senate headed toward the holidays with President Joe Biden's huge domestic spending bill remaining in limbo.

Aired 12/17/2021

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