Making sense of the COVID pandemic's omicron phase

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Npr, Talk Show, Daily

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🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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You've heard the headlines about record-breaking omicron cases. But are case number the wrong way to look at COVID? We learn how to make sense of the pandemic, now. Dr. Paul Checchia and Dr. Richard Lessells join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:35.1	This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.
0:38.1	Pandemics are not static events.
0:40.9	They are extremely dynamic as the COVID pandemic continues to demonstrate.
0:46.1	The course of the disease, its spread and impact shift,
0:49.7	just as our understanding of the pandemic feels like it's caught up.
0:54.2	The meteoric rise of the Omicron variant proves that,
0:56.9	so it's time to ask,
0:58.7	are we like old generals using outmoded tools, equipment and strategies,
1:05.4	and fighting the last war,
1:07.8	not the current one or the one yet to come?
1:11.6	How do we best understand the COVID pandemic now?
1:17.8	Well, I'm going to tell you up front, we couldn't find one uniform answer to that question.
1:23.6	In fact, there's considerable difference of opinion in the medical community.
1:28.0	For example, take this commentary this week from Vivek Ramaswamy,
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