How to Care for COVID at Home, and Is That Sniffle Allergies or the Virus? COVID Quickly, Episode 30

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 9 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	Have you got Amazon Prime?
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0:19.6	Hi and welcome to COVID Quickly, a scientific American podcast series.
0:33.2	This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic.
0:36.2	We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus
0:40.2	and the disease.
0:41.6	We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.
0:45.5	I'm Tanya Lewis.
0:46.5	I'm Josh Fishman.
0:47.6	And we're a scientific American senior health editors.
0:50.6	Today, how to care for yourself when you're sick at home with COVID.
0:54.0	And how do you know when it's just spring allergies making you sneeze and not the virus?
1:01.6	These days, I keep hearing about people getting COVID and riding it out at home.
1:06.0	If you have a relatively mild case, what should you do to take care of yourself?
1:10.1	More and more people are in exactly that situation, Tanya.
1:13.1	The daily average of new cases has been going up from about 50,000
1:17.1	with the end of April to just over 80,000 today.
1:20.6	But a lot fewer people are ending up in the hospital, just under 20,000 at the end of last week.
1:26.6	Well, that's good, but that means more people with COVID are taking care of themselves at home, right?
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