Salt Lake County Health Department public health nurse Lee Cherie Booth performs a coronavirus test outside the Salt Lake County Health Department on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, in Salt Lake City.

What Does the Delta Variant Change?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 2, 2021

Leana Wen, MD, emergency physician, professor at George Washington University, contributing columnist for The Washington Post, CNN medical analyst, former Baltimore Health Commissioner and the author of Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health (Metropolitan Books, 2021), talks about her new book, in which she explains how public health initiatives — which are sometimes invisible — save individual lives, and talks about what the rise of the delta variant might mean for those who are, and aren't, vaccinated against COVID-19.

→EVENTS: Dr. Wen will speak about her book at these upcoming virtual events:
Monday, August 2, 6pm ET via The Strand bookstore

Thursday, August 5, 6:30 ET via Baltimore's Enoch Free Library

Thursday, August 12, 6:30 PT via Los Angeles' Vroman's bookstore

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