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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

The *New* New Phase of the Pandemic

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Biden administration’s new pandemic rules and countermeasures intend to bring us into a “new phase of the pandemic.” The CDC also released new guidelines for masking, and now about 70% of Americans can go mask free. What do these new guidelines actually say about what stage of the pandemic we’re in?  Guest: Megan Ranney, emergency room doctor at Brown Emergency Medicine.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Between forgetting the sellotape,

0:01.6

trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table,

0:04.1

and the cat taking down the tree.

0:06.1

Again!

0:07.1

Christmas can be tricky.

0:10.4

At least with Royal Mail, sending parcels is easy.

0:13.6

You can save time and money when you buy your postage online

0:16.3

and will collect from your door for zero pounds.

0:18.6

Whether you have one, two or twenty to send,

0:21.4

just click, save and will collect.

0:23.6

Visit RoyalMail.com forward slash send.

0:26.4

Simple, offer on 31st December for details online.

0:37.0

Megan, where is the weirdest place in your house

0:40.4

that you've found a mask?

0:44.2

Oh my goodness, probably inside my sunsock.

0:53.2

I called up Dr. Megan Ranny.

0:55.2

She's an ER physician at Brown University.

0:58.1

Because I wanted to ask her what I should do now

1:01.1

with all of these masks.

1:04.2

I feel like I'm surrounded by masks.

1:06.9

Like they're in the glove compartment.

1:09.6

Like the worst is the masks that are hanging on the knobs

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