Mutations

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Last month, we learned about the “UK variant.” Now, more mutations from South Africa and Brazil have made headlines. How bad are they? And should you change anything you’re doing already? Dr. Vineet Menachery, a virologist at the Galveston National Laboratory who studies coronaviruses, joins to explain. 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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0:28.8	Hey Jim. Hey, Catherine.
0:33.0	Jim, there was a lot of news since we last spoke.
0:37.0	A lot of things happened.
0:39.0	It's hard to believe it was only a week ago that we had a coup or insurrection in this country.
0:47.8	The thing that it did was temporarily distract me from the horrors of coronavirus, except what's coming out now is that
0:59.2	several Congress people who were, you know, in lockdown when that was happening they had to all crowd into rooms together
1:07.1	Some of them refused to wear masks and now some of them are testing positive
1:11.7	Yeah not extremely surprising. Of course it's impossible
1:16.1	to trace the infection absolutely to that moment, but definitely not recommended to get into a small room for hours with someone without wearing a mask.
1:26.0	That's just like been sort of a consistent recommendation this whole time.
1:30.2	The idea that the people who are in charge of this response and guiding our federal policy are not themselves
1:36.6	willing and able to wear masks. And I know there have been some questions about like, well,
1:41.9	aren't those people getting vaccinated
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