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Have Case Numbers Plateaued?

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Maeve answer listener vaccine questions and are joined by Alexis Madrigal, who explains the apparent plateau in cases (and why he’s begun to worry despite his longer-term optimism). With the COVID Tracking Project winding down, Madrigal also offers insight about where to get the best data. Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at theatlantic.com/supportus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello. Top of the morning to you, Jim. Hi, Maeve. Happy,

0:11.0

St. Patrick's Day. Thank you. I just wanted to get a preemptive striking

0:16.2

before you did so that's why I said the thing that

0:19.7

Irish people never really say. Yeah, I not wearing green so you're probably pretty

0:24.1

mad. I know you're not and I think that's offensive and you'll be hearing from

0:30.6

my solicitor when it gets out of the pub. Oh my goodness a solicitor is what? Oh, an attorney, my attorney. Oh, right, okay, right. When it gets out of the bar, the saloon.

0:42.4

Threatening. it gets out of the balloon.

0:47.0

threatening litigation, that's very American. How are you celebrating?

0:50.0

Do you celebrate?

0:51.0

Is it just an annoyance?

0:52.0

I mean, no, I, it's not like... Do you celebrate celebrate? Is it just an annoyance?

0:52.7

I mean, no, I, it's not like,

0:56.1

we're having like a nice meal tonight,

0:57.8

but it's not particularly.

0:59.7

We're still in very severe lockdown here

1:02.1

with like a three mile radius. Yeah. So but today I don't know who it was because he was dressed as a leproquon, but I think it was a local politician drove by our house and like my nieces and nephews were all standing outside and he like jumped out of the car and they were like is that supposed to be St Patrick like it was

1:27.4

confusing and frightening a local politician did this, like they had a drive-by parade because you know of

1:37.4

COVID and he was dressed as I think a leper gone like he was a full-sized man but he had on like a full suit and you know like a head

1:50.8

of a leopard so yeah so so he jumped out of a car and everyone, you know, kind of stepped back.

1:58.0

And he gave medals out to children just saying, you know, St Patrick's Day medals,

2:04.4

and then my nephew started really weeping uncontrollably.

2:08.8

And now...

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