taylor: bloomberg's health care reporter riley griffin, appreciate it.inal thoughts are next. ♪ ♪ romaine: we decided to do this show because that is the one-year anniversary of the first covid shot vaccine being administered in the u.s. the u.k. beat us to the punch by one week. i think a lot of people thought one year later we would kind of be over this. we're talking about boosters now and maybe even more shots down the road. taylor: it feels crazy that it almost seems there is not an end in sight. we've now got treatments to treat severe disease, but the things that are getting more headlines on more research and, to me, it's mind blowing. kailey: seems like we are moving backwards. to your point about returning to normal, i don't even know what normal means anymore. romaine: we should point out, the severity of this does not seem to rise to the level of what we saw at the height of the pandemic here. you remember the way hospitals were filling up, they were basically making mobile hospitals to accommodate all of those who were stricken. we're not se