Delta Variant: BFD or NBD?

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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COVID’s Delta variant is on the rise in the U.S. The data suggest we have room for optimism -- so why are we seeing dire messages from public health experts? Guest: Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious diseases and HIV doctor at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.2	How much do you know about the new variant of the coronavirus, the one they're calling Delta?
0:38.5	This is the story of the Delta variant.
0:41.0	That variant now spreading so rapidly in the United States that it's expected to become
0:45.0	the dominant strain in the next few weeks.
0:47.1	And hospitalizations are spiking.
0:49.9	Maybe, you know, it's first detected in India.
0:52.6	Maybe, you know, it's more transmissible than other strains.
0:56.4	Warning the Delta strain of COVID can be transmitted within seconds.
1:01.5	Maybe you've heard it's causing hospitals to get crowded again.
1:05.7	June so far seeing more COVID patients than any of the three previous months, and one
1:10.5	hospital's CEO says his facility is now more full than it was in the peak of winter.
1:17.4	But Dr. Monica Gandhi, she wants you to rethink what you've heard.
1:21.4	She works in San Francisco, says when she walks into her hospital, it's kind of empty.
1:27.8	She doesn't feel any of the urgency.
1:29.6	She sees on the TV news.
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