Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House covid-19 response coordinator, is the guest for a wide-ranging interview on this week’s “What the Health?” podcast.

Jha, who’s on leave from his “day job” as dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, said he’s particularly frightened in regards to the nation making the transition from public health emergency status back to a more normal footing and routine — particularly for low-income and uninsured individuals who may not give you the option to get the sort of covid tests, treatments, and vaccines which have up to now been free through federal subsidies.

Jha said the Biden administration is doing greater than the general public realizes to check “long covid,” a set of conditions amongst a subset of patients who proceed to suffer from an infection or its aftereffects, and to enhance the standard of indoor air, which will help stem the spread of not only the coronavirus but other communicable respiratory diseases as well.