Local COVID Variants Q&A

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 1, 2021

Wafaa El-Sadr, university professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and director of ICAP at Columbia University, talks about the latest local COVID-19 news including the decline in positive cases overall but an increase in virus variants detected and the FDA emergency approval of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Plus, she answers listener questions about the variants and vaccines.

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