America's Next Omicron Wave (with Bill Hanage)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Andy brings Harvard epidemiologist Bill Hanage back to discuss what the US can expect to see with the new Omicron subvariant BA.2. How will our bump compare to what we’re seeing in Europe? And how will people navigate it with the nationwide relaxation of vaccine and mask mandates? Plus, they revisit some of their previous conversation about the original strain of Omicron from six weeks ago to see how well their predictions held up.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Here is the piece that Bill wrote with Marc Lipsitch back in February 2020 called ‘How to Report on the COVID-19 Outbreak Responsibly”: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-report-on-the-covid-19-outbreak-responsibly/
Check out the paper Bill co-wrote in Cell about variants: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(21)01374-X.pdf
Read the David Leonhardt piece that Andy references in today’s episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/briefing/covid-risks-poll-americans.html
Bill mentioned this paper that appeared in The Lancet about Omicron and Delta in the UK: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00462-7/fulltext
Order free at-home COVID-19 tests through the USPS: https://special.usps.com/testkits
Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
Order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165

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1:40.0	Welcome in the bubble. This is your host Andy Slavitt. Happy spring. March 21st.
1:45.0	By the way, it sounds like we're going to go through this thing where the clocks are no longer going to change.
1:50.0	I don't know if you heard about this. We'll talk about the other time. It's not the topic of today's show.
1:56.0	If the topic of today's show was the time change, I don't know how I would feel the hour,
2:01.0	unless I fell back and got rid of the hour. That's a dead joke.
2:05.0	Today we're going to be talking with Bill Hanage. We talked to six weeks ago when we very intelligently asked him,
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