Life With The Fast Strains
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Pfizer and Moderna say their vaccines may be less effective against a new coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom somewhat inexplicably lifted statewide stay-at-home orders… that decision received quick backlash given the dire state of the pandemic, especially in Southern California.
Ice loss around the globe is accelerating at a record pace according to a new study, and is line with the worst case climate change scenarios that scientists projected. We discuss Biden’s early efforts to counteract climate change, including plans to limit new drilling on federal land, and more.
And in headlines: Biden lifts Trump’s ban on transgender service members in the military, Amazon warehouse workers will vote on whether they want to unionize, and Rudy Giuliani faces a $1.3 billion lawsuit for Dominion defamation.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 26th, I'm a Healy Hughes. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what the day where we have lost the battle against |
| 0:13.3 | our daily average screen time but we have not lost the war. |
| 0:16.4 | Yeah, that number taunts me every week but it's not stronger than me. |
| 0:20.2 | It's just a number. |
| 0:22.7 | Like everything else. |
| 0:23.7 | We're all made in numbers. |
| 0:25.7 | Today's show a new study on climate change and how the Biden administration plans to tackle |
| 0:39.0 | the issue than some headlines. |
| 0:41.1 | But first the latest and we're going to start with some news on coronavirus variants |
| 0:44.7 | and vaccines. |
| 0:45.7 | Yesterday, Pfizer and Moderna said their vaccines are effective against the new coronavirus |
| 0:49.7 | strains that were first identified in the UK and South Africa. |
| 0:53.4 | But the vaccines may be less effective when it comes to the South African variant. |
| 0:57.4 | So Gideon, what does this mean? |
| 1:00.1 | I would characterize this as good news and then not so good news but not exceedingly terrible |
| 1:05.2 | news, which I'll take. |
| 1:07.0 | Good that there is efficacy overall but not good that it may be diminished for the strain |
| 1:10.8 | found in South Africa. |
| 1:11.8 | That is something that people have been quite concerned about. |
| 1:14.7 | But we also learned about steps that the companies were taking to deal with this possibility. |
| 1:19.1 | So Moderna's chief medical officer said that the company is going to develop a booster |
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