UCSF's Dr. Bob Wachter Answers Your COVID Questions

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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California’s seven-day COVID positive test rate is at five percent, the California Department of Public Health reported on Tuesday — the highest rate since February. The news comes as COVID cases have more than tripled in the U.S. since April 1, owing in large part to the highly transmissible BA.2 omicron subvariant. With many pandemic mandates lifted but masking still “strongly recommended” in much of the state, we’ll hear how you’re thinking about COVID risk and discuss the latest on prevention and treatment with UCSF’s Dr. Bob Wachter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.6	From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.
1:16.6	I'm Nina Kim.
1:18.0	California's seven-day COVID-positive test rate is at its highest since February,
1:22.1	when we were emerging from the Omicron wave.
1:24.6	And across the nation, COVID cases have more than tripled since April.
1:28.6	With many pandemic mandates lifted and masks optional,
1:31.9	though strongly recommended in California,
1:34.3	how are you approaching the latest search?
1:36.5	UC San Francisco's Bob Wachter is here to talk about
1:39.1	how his family is dealing with their latest bout of COVID
1:42.2	and to take your questions about prevention and treatment.
1:45.6	Join us.
2:09.3	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. This week marks the grim milestone of the U.S. surpassing a million deaths from COVID-19, though it's likely an undercount. 90,000 of those deaths
2:16.1	are Californians. And again, we find ourselves in a surge.
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