Back to School COVID Update
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD, infectious disease physician with a PhD in molecular medicine, researcher at Columbia, Optum chief of the division of infectious disease, president of Parasites Without Borders and co-host of the podcast "This Week in Virology," talks about the uptick in COVID cases, as the new school year gets started, plus timing the next booster, new variants, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Bryan Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. Hope you had a great |
| 0:12.4 | Labor Day weekend. Hope you had a great summer if you're out there because you're |
| 0:16.9 | getting back to local radio today after being away for the parents of |
| 0:21.0 | school-aged kids listening right now. Maybe it's a sigh of relief as you pack |
| 0:25.3 | the kiddos off to school again and let someone else deal with them for much of |
| 0:29.4 | the day, right? But don't send them to school if there is no school. First day of |
| 0:34.5 | school is a real patchwork around here. Here are some examples of how much so. New |
| 0:39.7 | York City Public Schools begin Thursday. New Jersey is all split up. New |
| 0:44.1 | work begins today. Jersey City Thursday, Elizabeth, not until Friday. Even |
| 0:49.0 | within the same area. We can have some differences. I read that school starts |
| 0:53.3 | tomorrow for the Freehold Regional High School District, but on Thursday for |
| 0:57.9 | the Freehold Barrow School District. So you 07, 726, zip code folks don't go |
| 1:03.8 | back the same day as the 07, 728. Looking at the Westchester map, just some |
| 1:09.9 | examples, awesoning and Irvington today, New Rochelle and Katona tomorrow, Mount |
| 1:16.8 | Vernon and Yonkers on Thursday. And on Long Island most of Nassau County today |
| 1:22.1 | with some opening tomorrow, Carl Place, Elmont, Jericho, all tomorrow, East |
| 1:26.6 | Williston on Thursday. Suffolk County is more split up than Nassau. So don't send |
| 1:32.7 | your kids to school unless there is actually school is the bottom line on that. |
| 1:36.8 | But for you teachers, I know you're basically all back for prep, whatever the |
| 1:41.9 | kids show up date is. So good luck out there parents, teachers, students and |
| 1:47.1 | staff. We're back to real. Some are heat around here today and most of this |
| 1:52.9 | week, maybe all of this week, highs in the 90s, coming for the next number of |
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