What Next: So... What Is COVID Now?

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The delta variant is now the most-prevalent strain of COVID-19, causing a handful of so-called “breakthrough” infections in fully-vaccinated people. Unvaccinated people account for 97% of severe cases of the virus. How worried should you be about infections as the delta variant continues to dominate? And is it time to mask up again? Guest: Susan Matthews, Slate’s news director. 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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0:34.0	Over the weekend, our producer Carmel called up an old friend, Courtney, to see how she was doing.
0:40.0	How have you been feeling lately?
0:43.0	I've been okay.
0:44.0	Courtney is a dental student in Florida.
0:47.0	Back in June, she was in self-imposed quarantine.
0:50.0	She'd spiked a fever, so she had to skip classes, get a COVID test.
0:55.0	She wasn't worried about it.
0:57.0	It's not like she was coughing, she was vaccinated.
1:00.0	She drove herself right over to CVS and walked in.
1:03.0	So I went in the store and CVS has you swab yourself.
1:07.0	And I told the guy who was doing my test.
1:11.0	I said, this isn't COVID, I'm vaccinated, it's totally fine.
1:14.0	And did the swab, while I was doing the swab, I sneezed.
1:20.0	And they make you wait in your car to get the results.
1:23.0	And I waited in my car, and while I was waiting in my car, I felt my vaccine site get sore,
1:31.0	which was the strangest feeling.
1:38.0	And at that moment, I was like, oh my gosh, I have COVID.
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