What to expect when you’re expecting Omicron

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Greta Johnsen

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🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Nerdette’s "resident epidemiologist" Dr. Emily Landon is back to cut through the noise and help us navigate the pandemic now. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	You may not know this, but with WBEZ, you can check up on the news live anytime you want,
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0:13.3	The news is on WBEZ.
0:21.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerda and I'm Greta Johnson.
0:24.4	A lot of people are talking about how this month is feeling a lot like that one time in
0:29.9	March of 2020, we are seeing record high numbers of cases of COVID across the US.
0:35.6	More and more people I know are getting sick, but I do feel like there are two super important
0:39.9	distinctions to be had from almost two years ago.
0:42.3	One of those is the fact that a lot of us are vaccinated and boosted, and the other
0:46.1	is that at least theoretically there's a lot of available testing out there.
0:50.8	With that said, I am still super confused about how I should be moving through the world
0:54.1	right now, and it seems like y'all are too because when we ask listeners for questions, someone
0:58.5	who goes by Tini Poo on Instagram wanted to know why is this still happening and can
1:04.2	we just not?
1:06.6	So here to help us navigate is Dr. Emily Landon, or that's resident epidemiologist, she's
1:11.6	an infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago, Emily, welcome back.
1:16.6	Hi, thanks for having me.
1:19.8	Can we just not?
1:20.8	No, we're kind of doing that, it's not going very well, is it?
1:26.8	Yeah, this is, I have decided officially the January belongs in 2021, and that I'm not
1:31.8	starting the new year until 20 until February.
1:34.1	Okay, great.
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