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Today, Explained

New variant just dropped

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Seems like everyone’s got Covid again. Vox’s in-house epidemiologist, Dr. Keren Landman, delivers the good news and the bad news about Pirola. This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's happening again a friend got it. I think I got it at the Giants game then a neighbor

0:09.9

Then a colleague good look with that daily news podcast y'all, but I'm out and another colleague

0:15.1

I've got the bug four-belie-dote as the novel coronavirus and another colleague for the first time

0:22.1

Then Dr. Jill Biden got it like so many of you. I'm left asking

0:28.6

How do I keep my family safe?

0:32.1

COVID seems to be everywhere again. There's a new variant, but there are also some fresh vaccines a health advisory panels

0:40.6

Deciding whether the updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna should be available to people as young as five years of age

0:47.6

Or only groups deemed high risk on today explained we're gonna deliver some news you can use whether you're still scared of it

0:55.2

Totally over it or somewhere in between

1:00.0

Support for this episode comes from Zell

1:02.9

You'd never fall for an online scam, right?

1:06.8

You use two-factor authentication ignore calls from everyone named spam risk and never used the password

1:15.5

password

1:17.0

But scammers are getting more sophisticated and more active which means they're finding millions of new victims

1:24.0

Every single year the good news is that there's a lot you can do to protect yourself on the wild wild web

1:31.5

For starters, Zell wants to remind you only send money to people you know and trust

1:37.6

Zell is available to United States bank account holders only terms and conditions apply

1:42.1

I

1:52.3

Don't know who needs to hear this, but y'all COVID is back. I have COVID. I got caught in the summer

1:57.4

And I got COVID again for the fourth time. It really sucks. I'm 30 for weeks and I've been having bad body

2:04.2

I am a nurse, y'all a pediatric nurse and we have been getting

2:10.7

Some COVID and school it hasn't really even started yet anyone else notice that like

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