What the delta variant means for you

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

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How the highly contagious delta variant is affecting the fight against the coronavirus. Plus, Nikole Hannah-Jones's fight for tenure and what it's like to be Black in higher education.

A mutated, more transmissible form of the coronavirus called the delta variant is forcing countries to go back into lockdown and areas of the United States to reinstate mask mandates. Fenit Nirappil reports on what’s known so far about this new variant and how it could affect the United States.

On Tuesday, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones announced she would accept a faculty position at Howard University, following a controversy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over whether to offer her tenure. Producer Jordan-Marie Smith spoke to higher ed reporter Nick Anderson and Black professors about what it’s like to be Black in higher education.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is Colby.
0:12.4	Hi, Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.
0:15.4	This is Post Reports.
0:16.8	I'm Martin Powers.
0:20.7	It's Tuesday, July 6.
0:26.0	Today what the Delta variant means for you, plus the universal struggle for black women
0:31.4	in higher education.
0:38.0	Right now in the US, it seems like things are going pretty well.
0:42.4	People are getting vaccinated.
0:44.0	People are being able to take off masks safely.
0:46.6	People are getting reunited and hugging their friends and families for the first time.
0:51.6	But at the same time, we are hearing all this news about this scary thing on the horizon,
0:57.2	the Delta variant, that seems like it's threatening to take all that good stuff away.
1:02.7	So all viruses mutate and take on different strains.
1:06.3	The Delta variant is one of the different variants of the coronavirus, and it was first detected
1:11.2	in India during the catastrophic surge of cases earlier this spring.
1:15.4	Fennett Nearpill covers the pandemic for the post, and he's been following the rise
1:19.7	of the Delta variant.
1:21.4	It is this mutated form of coronavirus that's estimated to be around 50% more transmissible
1:27.2	than previous forms.
1:29.0	He talked to producer Emmet Talkoff.
1:33.6	The reason that the Delta variant has learned public health officials is because it's highly
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