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A Word: The Third COVID Summer

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

People are back in the office; schools are planning full classes in the fall; masks are seen less and less frequently. It’s the third COVID summer, but the latest variant of the virus is causing another surge in infection rates and hospitalizations. What do we need to do to protect ourselves now? And how can we be prepared for monkeypox, and the next pandemic?   Guest: Dr. Ebony Hilton, practicing physician, and a frequent medical analyst for MSNBC.   Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola   You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. After two

0:05.1

years of pandemic restrictions, many Americans are back in the office in

0:09.1

restaurants and other crowded spaces, often while leaving mass at home. But with

0:14.6

infections rising, doctors are warning that although we may be over the COVID

0:19.0

crisis, it's not over for us. When your children are going to school and there's

0:23.7

no ventilation in that school district and they are bringing that virus back

0:27.6

into the home, those are the types of things that lead to black and brown

0:31.3

people being more likely to be infected. Bracing for a pandemic surge, coming up

0:36.3

on a word. With me, Jason Johnson, stay with us. What do I do? What do I do? What do I

0:43.4

say? What do I say? In the McMillan online community, we know what it's

0:49.6

like to have cancer because we have it too. So whatever you're thinking, whatever

0:55.6

you're feeling, whatever you need to ask about cancer, whatever the time of

1:00.6

day or night, we'll do whatever it takes to help you. To join us, search McMillan

1:07.9

online community.

1:13.2

Welcome to a word. A podcast about race in politics and everything else. I'm your

1:17.7

host Jason Johnson. Vigilance about COVID has been on the decline from months in the

1:23.0

US. Millions of Americans are back to work in person and massive become optional in policy

1:28.2

and practice. Even in locations with little social distance and a fair number of at-risk people,

1:34.0

but President Biden's COVID infection has served as a wake-up call. In the cities like Dallas,

1:38.9

San Francisco, and New York, the new BA-5 variant is pushing infection rates up again,

1:44.6

even as many of the community efforts to fight the virus are disappearing.

1:48.9

So is the danger of COVID a thing of the past? Or is the US setting itself up to fall

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