At the time of this recording, at the end of June, 2021, new guidelines just came down

from the World Health Organization.

Two days ago, urging all of us, people around the world, to continue to wear masks to protect

against the spread of COVID-19.

Yeah, I know, I can't believe we're still doing this, but for many of us, they're asking

us to put our masks back on because they specifically addressed people who are vaccinated, asking

those of us who've gotten our shots, if we've taken off our masks, thrown them away even

to go back to wearing them in public.

That's because there's a new variant called the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

That's more infectious, and it's spreading, quickly becoming the dominant variant, even

in countries who are well-vaccinated.

One of the WHO senior advisors, Dr. Bruce Aillward, said, if you have eased up, go back to

washing your hands and social distancing, quote, with much more care.

Dr. Maria Van Kirkov, and I hope I pronounced that correctly, she said, and she's a technical

lead at the WHO on COVID-19.

She said, this is important because there are many places that are still struggling with

infections, states in the United States that are not even close to fully vaccinated.

And these guidelines that have held back the virus, though they are working, quote, there

may be a time when this virus evolves, and these countermeasures don't, as in these countermeasures

don't work anymore.

So to stop that, they need people to go back to being very safe.

Now, I plan on doing another episode about vaccination, when my efforts to vaccinate

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