The Current State Of COVID with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
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What A Day
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🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Most adults in America can soon sign up for a vaccine, but we're faced with a new set of COVID-related questions on vaccine passports, virus variants, and more. To give us some answers, we're joined by epidemiologist, physician, and former Detroit health commissioner Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.
Plus, Michigan has become the center of America's latest COVID surge with an average of over 7,300 new daily cases last week. We ask Dr. El-Sayed about the link between that surge and the UK variant of the virus, B117.
And in headlines: Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario sues two police officers in Virginia over a violent traffic stop, Maryland repeals the state's police bill of rights, and workers at Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama, plant vote against unionizing.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, April 12th, I'm in Kila Hues. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Dr. Abdul Al-Sahid. |
| 0:10.8 | And this is what a day where we are happy to announce that at this stage of the pandemic, |
| 0:14.5 | cooking is canceled. |
| 0:15.5 | Yep, we all did our sourdough, we did that with coffee, and now I'm just ordering |
| 0:19.9 | it until this thing's over. |
| 0:21.6 | That's right, so if you are delivering food, expect a fat tip from me because yeah, I |
| 0:26.2 | am done. I'm done. |
| 0:33.2 | First things first, we've got a guest with us today, epidemiologist, physician, and |
| 0:39.2 | former Detroit Health Commissioner Dr. Abdul Al-Sahid, Abdul, so happy to have you with us. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you for taking the time. |
| 0:45.0 | Kila, it is my privilege and honor to be guest hosting what a day with you, and thank |
| 0:51.0 | you for having me. |
| 0:52.0 | Of course, yeah, it's been a long time, Kevin. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah, I see. Finally, you're doing this together. |
| 0:56.7 | Well, Abdul also hosts our favorite health podcast, American Dissected, and we're happy to |
| 1:01.1 | have him along with us today to ask him some of our most pressing COVID questions because |
| 1:05.1 | that's what we're still in a pandemic. |
| 1:06.7 | But before we get to that, here's a quick word from a longtime friend of the show, Optimus |
| 1:11.2 | Prime. |
| 1:12.2 | Humans, it is so good to see all of you once more. |
| 1:15.8 | It has been a tough and prime year, but you know what? |
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