Special Edition: 'Twindemic' - COVID19 & Flu Season
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Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today we're talking about the potential impact of the so-called 'twindemic' during flu season.
You'll hear about the differences between the flu and COVID-19, offering advice for how to handle the upcoming holidays, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, October 24th, and today we're talking about COVID-19 during flu season. |
| 0:05.3 | What you need to know about the surge of cases we're seeing again around the US right now, |
| 0:09.1 | why the so-called twin-demic is such a concern in the months ahead. |
| 0:12.3 | Advice for how to handle the upcoming holidays. Twin Demic is such a concern in the months ahead, |
| 0:12.5 | advice for how to handle the upcoming holidays, |
| 0:14.9 | and much more. |
| 0:15.8 | Our guest today is Dr. Sima Yasmin. |
| 0:17.7 | She's a public health doctor, |
| 0:19.2 | former CDC disease detective, |
| 0:21.3 | and an Emmy Award winning medical journalist. |
| 0:23.4 | She's the author of Viral B.S. Medical myths and why we fall for them. |
| 0:27.6 | So here's our conversation about COVID-19 and the flu. |
| 0:36.8 | Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday, when we sit down with a different expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. |
| 0:40.3 | Don't |
| 0:43.0 | to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes when we provide all the days news in just 10 minutes. |
| 0:45.8 | It's fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm Erica Mandy, it's time for today's special edition Saturday. |
| 0:51.8 | You ready, let's do this. |
| 0:54.0 | Hi Dr Yasmin, thanks for coming on the show. |
| 0:59.6 | Of course, good to talk to you. |
| 1:01.2 | So we are already seeing kind of another surge in cases around the |
| 1:04.8 | U.S. right now. Why do you think this is happening now? People have COVID fatigue at this point so I think |
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