A fourth covid surge?

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Experts warn that the United States may be entering a fourth surge of coronavirus cases. And, the things we take when we leave home.

Some scientists are warning that the United States is entering a “fourth wave” in the pandemic. Others are questioning that conclusion. Reis Thebault reports.

When Post community editor Yu Vongkiatkajorn left Chiang Mai at 18, she tried to bring with her a veritable library — books collected over the years, journals she treasured. But when making her home in the United States, the object that stayed with her through her cross-continental moves was an unexpected one: a traditional silk shirt from Thailand that she never wears but lives permanently in her closet. For Post Reports producer Linah Mohammad, she also holds on to clothing, with two scarves that represent the Jordanian and Palestinian parts of her cultural identity.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is Colby.
0:12.5	Hi, it's Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.
0:15.1	This is Post Reports.
0:16.7	I'm routine powers.
0:20.8	It's Monday, April 5.
0:25.3	Today, why some scientists are warning about a fourth COVID wave and the things we take
0:31.4	with us when we leave home.
0:37.9	It's a little bit like that movie Groundhog Day, right?
0:48.6	Reese Teebo covers the coronavirus for the post.
0:51.6	We're in month, like, 14 of this and we wake up again and we check the coronavirus case
0:59.2	data and it's like, right, you know, here we go again.
1:03.4	We're seeing cases on the rise after weeks of decline.
1:08.8	And we were so hopeful for a while.
1:10.5	Like the graph was going down and down and down really steeply and things were looking
1:15.1	great and then you just started to see it slow down and then kind of tick back up little
1:19.2	by little.
1:20.4	And it is like a slow motion horror movie.
1:23.6	Yeah, exactly.
1:24.6	And we've been through this before, you know, we know how it goes and we know how it ends.
1:32.4	But I think the debate now is where does this go next?
1:37.3	We see the numbers ticking up and what experts are trying to figure out is whether this
1:44.6	amounts to an actual fourth surge of the virus or whether as Dr. Scott Gottlub said on CBS
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