Dr. Jennifer Ashton: We will be changed forever

JENNIFER ASHTON: This pandemic has affected the world, killed over 2 and 1/2 million people in a year.

It is not going to disappear. [MUSIC PLAYING]

Early on in the book, you say things might go back to a more familiar scene. There are no longer toilet paper shortages or lines

at the grocery stores. But the impacts of an asteroid are far and wide. Can you explain that concept, that idea that now things

won't be the same, even if it's sort of familiar again? It doesn't mean worse. It doesn't mean better. It just means different.

I eventually think that this virus will be endemic, not pandemic, you know, like many other infectious diseases

that we live with. But right now, it is a bad actor. And so we can wish all we want that things will just

miraculously go back quote, unquote, "to normal," but we don't live life in reverse. So I really try to present to people ways in which they can,

with positivity, with resilience, and with, you know, some smart kind of approach to thinking,

really get on with life because it's time. We've all just about had enough of this. I know I have.

We've had it up to here with this pandemic. [MUSIC PLAYING]