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From KQED.

Welcome back to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Amacron. It's the latest COVID variant, and it has the world spooked.

The World Health Organization warns that the global risk from the new variant on

Macron is very high. It was first detected by South Africa's excellent surveillance infrastructure

and has now been identified in more than a dozen countries. Joining us to talk about what we know

so far about how contagious the variant is and how effective vaccines are likely to be against

it is Kirsten B are likely to be against it.

Is Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo?

She's chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF.

Welcome to the show, Dr. Bivens-Domingo.

Thanks so much for having me.

So let's just start out with kind of the basics.

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