COVID, Quickly, Episode 9: Delta Variant, Global Vaccine Shortfalls, Beers for Shots

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here .

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to COVID Quickly, a scientific American podcast series.
0:13.6	This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic we bring you up to speed on the science
0:18.4	behind the most urgent questions about the virus and the disease.
0:22.6	We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.
0:26.6	I'm Tanya Lewis.
0:27.8	I'm Josh Fishman.
0:28.8	We're a scientific American senior health editors.
0:31.7	Today we're talking about the danger of the Delta variant and the patchwork vaccine effort
0:36.3	around the world and lottery tickets or beers for a shot in the US.
0:45.3	The latest virus variant to grab headlines is called Delta.
0:48.9	Why are scientists particularly concerned about it Josh?
0:52.1	Because it's more transmissible and it seems to be putting more people in the hospital
0:55.9	Tanya and it's on the rise all around the globe.
0:59.2	Delta was first spotted in India and spread quickly to 74 countries.
1:03.7	In England it accounts for 90% of new cases taking over from the version called alpha.
1:08.9	It's got a bunch of mutations that seem to help it get inside human cells and evade antibodies
1:14.1	that hunt for it.
1:15.7	Researchers at Public Health England found the chances of people passing Delta around
1:19.4	their households were 64% higher than with alpha.
1:23.7	That's a big jump.
1:25.2	That had started opening up more recently too.
1:28.1	Couldn't that have also led to more infections in addition to some future of the variant itself?
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