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🗓️ 3 January 2022
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0:00.0 | From New York Times, I'm Michael Wabaro. This is a daily. |
0:07.0 | Today, nearly half a million new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the US. |
0:19.3 | The US has averaged more than 300,000 new cases a day. |
0:22.9 | Hospitalizations are also rising fast here. |
0:25.7 | The highly contagious overconvary is fueling record-breaking infection rates across the |
0:31.7 | world and the United States. |
0:33.9 | There are three Americans are testing positive for COVID every second. |
0:37.5 | I mean, these numbers are absolutely staggering and disrupting basic services. |
0:43.1 | Thousands of flights had to be canceled from flights to subways in the process. |
0:48.8 | The fire department says 30% of its EMS personnel is out sick. |
0:53.2 | Here in the US, new cases are higher than they've ever been during the pandemic. |
0:57.7 | But here's the thing, deaths are down. |
1:00.0 | But what it's not doing is killing or hospitalizing those in-effects at the same rate as previous |
1:07.8 | variants. |
1:08.8 | I spoke with my colleagues, science writer Carl Zimmer about why that is and what happens |
1:17.2 | next. |
1:32.5 | It's Monday, January 3rd. |
1:40.6 | So Carl, happy new year? |
1:43.4 | Is it happy new year? |
1:45.7 | It is a new year like no other. |
1:49.1 | And yet, it kind of feels familiar. |
1:52.6 | Right? |
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