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Today you learn about what's going on with the new COVID-19 variance with

infectious disease epidemiologist Dr.

Syra medad.

Then you learn about a new theory on how our planet's formed.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

We know it's hard to wrap your head around all the latest developments with the coronavirus pandemic.

So we talked to an expert to help you understand the latest, specifically what to do about the new coronavirus mutations or variants and what effect they might have on the vaccines.

Dr. Cyrus Medod is a nationally recognized epidemiologist and the senior director of the Pathogens

program at NYC Health and Hospitals.

One of the big things we talked to her about was the Fear Factor.

How worried should we be about these new coronavirus variants? Dr. Medad told us that even with these new coronavirus variants.

Dr. Medad told us that even with these new variants, quote,

what we have been doing since the beginning of the pandemic,

we just need to keep doing it and doing even more of it." Basically, near the beginning of the pandemic, we figured some things out,

wear masks, stay away from other people, wash your hands, and as far as the variance go, we just need to stick with that game plan.

Right, but hopefully someday we won't have to be so vigilant and the vaccines are one way

we can make that happen. So it's pretty important to know how these new variants might affect the vaccines.

Here's what Dr. Cyrus Medad told us when we asked,

what would it take for a vaccine to stop being effective against a mutation?

When we talk about certain events happening, meaning that people that have been

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