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What Next TBD: Another Summer of COVID

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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After a quiet spring, COVID is surging back for the fourth consecutive summer. So, is this just life now?  Guest: Katherine Wu, staff writer at the Atlantic 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 TBD. 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

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

We were Liars.

0:08.0

A new series on Prime Video.

0:10.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:12.0

Based on the best-selling novel.

0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.

0:34.9

I don't know about you, but all of a sudden, I seem to know a number of people with COVID, in a way that hasn't happened in a while.

0:44.0

Whether it's colleagues or friends or even Instagram acquaintances posting pictures of those two telltale lines on an antigen test.

0:53.4

It made me want to call up Catherine Wu, a science writer at The Atlantic, to figure out

0:57.8

what's going on.

0:59.4

She recently wrote a story asking whether we're in for one more COVID summer.

1:04.5

And I wondered if she knew people with COVID now, too.

1:08.0

So I am hearing all of the sort of hearsay epidemiology that you're talking about,

1:13.4

but I for some reason, like, either don't have enough friends. I don't know what, but for some reason

1:18.6

my bubble is so far okay. I used to be someone who like woke up in the morning and checked case

1:24.9

counts, either through my local health department or,

1:28.5

you know, in the newspaper or on a website. And I, I don't have that to check anymore.

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