What to know about covid-19 this fall
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today, what to know about covid boosters, the new variant and how to protect those most at risk this fall.
As summer comes to a close, many people have started to see a bump in covid-19 cases among their family and friends. A new variant causing an uptick in hospitalizations and other illnesses like the flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are on the horizon.
Health reporter Fenit Nirappil discusses the latest on vaccine recommendations and how to protect ourselves and those most at risk.
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| 0:00.0 | In the past few weeks, I've suddenly got people in different corners of my life saying, |
| 0:08.1 | I've tested positive for COVID, or my kid has tested positive for COVID, and the more |
| 0:14.0 | people that I'm talking to, it feels like, oh, are we seeing COVID rise again? |
| 0:22.9 | It sounds all anecdotal and unscientific, but I have heard from experts saying, like, |
| 0:27.9 | this is actually a good indication that COVID is on the rise. |
| 0:31.7 | That's Fennett near a pill, a health reporter for the post. |
| 0:34.9 | He's been covering this recent uptick in COVID cases, and a small, but notable rise in hospitalizations. |
| 0:41.5 | After months of decline, numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show |
| 0:45.4 | that reported cases and hospitalizations are on the rise. |
| 0:49.5 | A summer wave of COVID ramping up, now the virus is far less deadly, but the timing comes |
| 0:54.8 | right as kids and teachers head back to school. |
| 0:57.9 | Fennett says that this increasing COVID is probably due to a few things. |
| 1:01.9 | There's a new variant around called EG5. |
| 1:05.2 | People are traveling more because, you know, summer, and the extreme heat that a lot of |
| 1:10.2 | the United States has been experiencing recently is keeping people indoors, which can make |
| 1:14.4 | COVID spread. |
| 1:15.4 | So, if you're the kind of person who takes more COVID precautions when you see COVID rising |
| 1:20.4 | in your community, this is the time to do that. |
| 1:26.2 | From the Newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm your guest host, Michelle Borstein. |
| 1:31.9 | It's Thursday, August 24th. |
| 1:34.1 | Today, what you need to know about COVID boosters, the new variant, and how to protect people |
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