3/6/2022: Platform 4, State of the Pandemic, Flying Blind

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Head of the CDC Dr. Rochelle Walensky is cautiously optimistic that the U.S. may be entering a new phase of the pandemic and says “we have to be vigilant.” Scott Pelley reports from a getaway to and from the war in Ukraine. And legally blind Jacob Smith is shredding up the ski slopes.

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0:55.0	The Russians are saying they're bombing only military bases.
1:01.0	It's all a lie.
1:03.0	They're bombing civilians.
1:06.0	They're killing children.
1:08.0	We mapped together the cases in purple.
1:13.5	What is the current state of the pandemic?
1:16.1	The director of the CDC showed us how they are tracking variants.
1:19.9	We sequence enough to be able to detect a new variant with 99% confidence.
1:25.9	And are you getting any kind of a hint that there's some new variant of concern?
1:30.2	No.
1:31.2	Not right now.
1:32.5	Nope.
1:32.7	I mean, we're tracking things, but there's nothing that appears to be, you know, the next
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