Ask An Infectious Disease Specialist About the Newest Developments in COVID-19 Research

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🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The pandemic might feel endless, but for scientists COVID-19 is still relatively new and research is evolving quickly. We'll talk with an infectious disease specialist about major studies that have come out recently. There are new findings on masks, the effectiveness of vaccines, and how much immunity we get from prior COVID infections. We'll talk about the newest research and treatments and we'll take your questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.1	The nation's public health leaders have made plenty of mistakes during the course of the
1:28.1	pandemic. But the truth is that they have a very difficult job. New science about the virus and about
1:34.0	our behavior relative to the virus is coming at a torrential pace. The very foundations of the
1:40.0	pandemic response continue to have to evolve. Today we talk with an infectious disease specialist about several crucial papers that have
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