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bones with the funding effort. i m calling on more employers to act. reporter: the tension comes as president biden appeals for more private companies to require vaccines. about a quarter of eligible americans still haven t gotten their first shot. that s why i ve had to move toward requirements. reporter: as new covid cases and hospitalizations plummet across much of the country some public health experts are now wondering whether we re beginning to see the start of a transition from a pandemic to the virus becoming endemic. an endemic disease is one that constantly lurks in your population. you can t omit the germ completely. you can t get rid of it totally. but you can control it. reporter: how will we know when we get there? i think we ll know it when we see it. when we see hospitalized cases, and new cases at a sustained really low level. if that rate of positives is below 5%, then we think this
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i don t want to be in the position to lose 5%, 10% of my workforce overnight on a vaccine mandate while at the same time we re barebones with the defunding effort. i m calling on more employers to act. reporter: the tension comes as president biden appeals for more private companies to require vaccines about a quarter of eligible americans still haven t gotten their first shot. that s why i have had to move toward requirements. reporter: but as new covid cases and hospitalizations plummet across much of the country, some public health experts are now wondering whether we re beginning to see the start of a transition from a pandemic to the virus becoming endemic. an endemic is one that constantly lurks in your population you can t omit the germ completely you can t get rid of it totally, but you can control it. reporter: how will we know when we get there? i think we ll know it when we see it when we see hospitalized cases and new cases at a sustained, really low level
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