Reading Between The Strains with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
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🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday, federal officials announced upcoming guidance changes, which reflects yet another new stage of the pandemic. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, epidemiologist and host of Crooked Media’s “America Dissected,” joins us to discuss what these new policies might look like and answers other questions about the future of COVID.
And in headlines: Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva took first place in the women’s short program, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly ousted three members of the city’s school board, and President Joe Biden ordered the National Archives to hand over the Trump administration’s White House visitor logs to the January 6th committee.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, February 17th. I'm Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Dr. Abdul-Elsehid. And this is what a day, the best podcast request, if you are |
| 0:13.1 | receiving an MRI, and they give you headphones. |
| 0:15.3 | Yes, we hope that your body and bones are 100% perfect, but if you do find yourself |
| 0:19.9 | in an MRI machine with audio capabilities, choose what. |
| 0:23.1 | But I'll tell you what, the smooth jazz of magnets clonking together, it's just as |
| 0:26.8 | good to call. On today's show, we'll update you on the federal hate crime trial against |
| 0:34.3 | the mod Arborious killers. Plus, San Francisco ousted three school board members in a landslide |
| 0:38.9 | recall. |
| 0:39.9 | But first, yesterday we heard once again from federal officials about upcoming guidance |
| 0:42.8 | changes, reflecting yet another new stage of this pandemic that we are in. Here is CDC |
| 0:48.6 | director Dr. Rochelle Wolensky. |
| 0:50.8 | We are assessing the most important factors based on where we are in the pandemic, and |
| 0:55.8 | we'll soon put guidance in place that is relevant and encourages prevention measures |
| 1:00.6 | when they are most needed to protect public health and our hospitals. We want to give |
| 1:05.9 | people a break from things like mask wearing when these metrics are better, and then have |
| 1:10.4 | the ability to reach for them again should things worsen. |
| 1:14.9 | If and when we update our guidance, we will communicate that clearly, and it will be based |
| 1:19.2 | on the data and the science. |
| 1:21.3 | Yes, we'll ask you about the show. We talked a little bit about some of these changes |
| 1:24.0 | that are happening state by state as the Omicron wave of cases subsides across the country. |
| 1:29.6 | But as the host of Crooked Media is an American dissected Abdul and an epidemiologist and |
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