How to navigate the current stage of the COVID pandemic

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

On Point, News, Npr, Daily, Talk Show

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Omicron BA.5 is the new dominant COVID strain in the U.S. New mutations. A new set of questions.

Dr. Ashish Jha, Professor Marlene Wolfe and Dr. Amesh Adalja join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.

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0:20.4	I'm Kimberly Atkins-Store in from Magna Chakra Bardy.
0:26.7	And this is on point.
0:28.7	COVID-19 is once again spiking across the country.
0:32.0	In the past two weeks, there has been a nearly 20% increase
0:35.7	in COVID-related hospitalizations.
0:38.0	But we're not in 2020 or even summer of 2021,
0:42.1	while cases have risen, so have vaccinations.
0:45.1	About 67% of all Americans are fully vaccinated.
0:49.0	But now we are hearing words like immunity defiant
0:53.0	associated with this latest variant.
0:55.2	So with all of that information,
0:57.0	how should we be responding to COVID-19 now?
1:00.3	What are the goals?
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