The Delta Variant: How Bad Is It?

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This delta variant of the coronavirus seems to really be screwing us over. Cases are spiking in the U.S., and we keep hearing about vaccinated people getting Covid. So how worried should we be? And what is it about delta that makes it so sneaky? We talk to public health supervisor Katarina Grande and virologist and immunologist Professor Ann Sheehy to find out. Here’s a link to our transcript: https://bit.ly/37Cn9la UPDATE 8/25/21 : In a previous version of this episode, we used the word "infected" when it would have been more accurate to use the phrase "get sick." The episode has been updated. This episode was produced by Meryl Horn with help from Rose Rimler, along with Nick DelRose, Michelle Dang and Ekedi Fausther-Keeys. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Ekedi Fausther-Keeys, Michelle Dang and Nick DelRose. Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Peter Leonard, Marcus Bagala, Emma Munger and Bobby Lord. Thanks to the researchers we got in touch with for this episode, including Professor Michael Toole, Dr. Kathryn Stephenson and Dr. Barnaby Young. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How you going?
0:01.3	I'm Wendy Zuckerman and this is Science Vs from Gimlet.
0:04.3	Nope, just kidding, it's me, Rose, Rhymler.
0:09.1	And I'm going to be hosting a few episodes of this show while Wendy's on leave.
0:11.8	You'll hear her again soon.
0:14.2	We're popping in before our next season because it seems like we're at a new crossroads
0:22.8	with COVID.
0:24.1	The highly contagious Delta variant now responsible for 93% of all new cases in the US.
0:29.9	And that alarming news from the CDC acknowledging that quote, the war has changed because of the Delta variant.
0:36.9	The Delta variant.
0:38.8	It's driving cases back up again and it has some of us wondering if our vaccines are still working.
0:43.8	There is some confusion and concern because those who are fully vaccinated are testing positive.
0:50.2	And it kind of feels like we're going backwards.
0:52.2	The CDC called for the vaccinated to also wear masks indoors in high-risk communities.
1:00.8	So what's going on here?
1:06.0	Today we're going to look at a couple of big pieces of this puzzle to figure out how freaked out we should be.
1:12.2	We're asking is Delta really escaping our vaccines?
1:15.6	And what makes this version of the coronavirus so sneaky?
1:19.6	That's coming up after the break.
1:30.2	Asteroid City from director Wes Anderson.
1:33.2	Welcome to your stargazers and space cadets.
1:36.0	What are those pulses indicate?
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