Apoorva Mandavilli And Michaeleen Doucleff On The Omicron Variant

12/09/21 • 27 min

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We’re joined by New York Times science and global health Reporter Apoorva Mandavilli and Michaeleen Doucleff, a correspondent for NPR’s Science desk, this week on News Nerds for Wednesday, December 8th, 2021. They share their reporting on the new Covid-19 strain, Omicron which was detected on November 23rd in South Africa. The World Health Organization (or WHO) labeled the variant a variant of concern. That’s all coming up. Also the geographical location challenge and a... ...podcast recommendations?

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