post house capital ceo, jackie reses, thank you.o fast -- scientists say the pandemic is far from over, and the warning, more breakthrough cases and school cancellations to come. we discussed that next. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: we are heading into the second full season following the covid-19 pandemic, with many questions still lingering about how long this will last, and what comes next. joining us to discuss what the future looks like is jodi schneider, bloomberg news political editor. the warnings only seem to be getting more dire. what lies ahead? jodi: it is not good news. we thought we would be in different places, especially in the u.s. where we had vaccines early. but now we're finding that in the race between vaccines and their variants, the variants are winning. until we get 90% to 95% of the global population either vaccinated or having immunity from having had the virus and surviving it, of italy, we will not be at a place where the virus is gone away, as we would like to think about it, and retur