COVID Quickly, Episode 21: Vaccines against Omicron and Pandemic Progress

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🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here .

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to COVID Quickly, a scientific American podcast series.
0:12.2	This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic.
0:15.2	We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus
0:19.0	and the disease.
0:20.0	We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.
0:24.6	I'm Josh Fishman, scientific American's senior health editor.
0:28.1	Tony Lewis, usually right here with me, is taking a well-deserved day off.
0:32.4	Today, we'll be talking Omicron, particularly how vaccines and boosters protect against
0:37.4	the new variant, and we'll sum up what Americans have done this year to keep themselves
0:42.2	and their communities safe.
0:44.0	Alright, you've been seeing headlines about Omicron every day now for three weeks since
0:50.0	it was first detected.
0:51.6	It's scary stuff.
0:52.6	It's now in 60 countries.
0:55.0	Schools have been restricted.
0:56.5	School districts are seeing big outbreaks, and some colleges seeing sudden huge spikes
1:00.7	in cases are ending their semesters with remote learning.
1:04.2	Clearly, this is not how we want it to end the year.
1:06.9	People are really on edge.
1:08.6	Now we're getting some real world data on what Omicron does and what vaccines do against
1:12.7	it.
1:13.7	Maybe that can take a bit of the edge off.
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