A Proposal For Rapid Tests To Reduce Student Quarantines
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Wednesday, September 1st. |
| 0:14.8 | So have you heard this phrase that many people seem to be using these days in the health |
| 0:19.8 | professions and in politics. We may be done |
| 0:22.8 | with COVID, but COVID's not done with us, right? Some version of that seems to be popping up in |
| 0:28.6 | lots of places, and obviously it's true. Here we are in September now. The month at back to office |
| 0:34.5 | was really supposed to take off in business districts, right, but has now been widely delayed. The month at Back to Office was really supposed to take off in business districts, right, but has now |
| 0:38.9 | been widely delayed. The month at Back to School was supposed to happen in lots of places, |
| 0:43.7 | leaving mask mandates, remote learning, and frequent quarantining in the dustbin of history. |
| 0:49.5 | Good riddance, not. The month by which so much of the country would be vaccinated and the vaccines would |
| 0:55.4 | prevent not only individuals from getting seriously ill, but also stop the spread. |
| 1:00.7 | But Delta's transmissibility and spotty vaccination rates are delaying that too. |
| 1:06.9 | So here we are with the first September COVID headlines being the political war over masks and schools, |
| 1:15.9 | U.S. hospitals with no beds left more than at any time in the pandemic. |
| 1:21.7 | There have been some individual, really tragic stories that we don't have to repeat here. |
| 1:26.4 | And confusion over when vaccinated people |
| 1:28.9 | should get or can get booster shots. You've probably heard that the government was considering |
| 1:33.8 | an eight-month timeline after your previous dose. Then it was maybe going to be six months. |
| 1:40.3 | President Biden even said this on Friday to Naftali Bennett, Prime Minister of Israel, where |
| 1:46.9 | boosters are available after five months. |
| 1:50.4 | Question raised is, should it be shorter than five months? Should it be almost five months? |
| 1:56.3 | That's being discussed. Should it be five months? And that's being discussed. Well, that was Friday. But slow down, Mr. President. Here's being discussed. Should it be five months and that's being discussed? Well, that was Friday. |
| 2:01.6 | But slow down, Mr. President. |
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