A New Chapter of the Coronavirus

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Recent data from the C.D.C. has found that not only can vaccinated people get infected with the Delta variant of the coronavirus, though instances are rare, but they also can potentially spread the virus just as much as an unvaccinated person. What are the practical implications of this new information? Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is a Daily.
0:10.4	Today, the United States takes a step backward in the pandemic,
0:16.0	warning that even vaccinated Americans may spread the virus and asking millions of them to resume wearing masks.
0:25.0	I spoke with my colleague, a porva mandavili, about this new chapter of the virus.
0:32.0	It's Monday, August 2nd.
0:39.0	Hey, porva. Hi.
0:41.0	My sense is that you do not come bearing good news.
0:43.0	I do not.
0:45.0	Well, I have only come to expect that from you.
0:50.0	Could be worse though. Could be worse.
0:52.0	Could it?
0:55.0	As I think we're hinting at, a lot has changed since we spoke to you exactly one week ago.
1:01.0	And that conversation was about breakthrough infections of COVID-19.
1:06.0	In fact, it needed people getting the virus because of the Delta variant.
1:10.0	And right after we spoke, we got a bunch of new information about those kind of infections that really began to change how the government and a lot of other people are.
1:21.0	Approaching the entire pandemic.
1:24.0	So talk us through all of that.
1:27.0	Last time when we talked, we were talking mainly about anecdotal cases of vaccinated people getting infected.
1:34.0	These breakthrough infections.
1:36.0	I was describing these incidents of breakthrough infections in weddings and family gatherings.
1:42.0	And there was this one outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
1:45.0	What changed this week is that the CDC looked into that Provincetown outbreak more closely.
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