Getting Real About Omicron in America

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 17, 2021

Ed Yong, staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers science, joins to discuss the news on the Omicron variant and why he believes it "poses a far graver threat" to American society than previous variants.

→"America Is Not Ready for Omicron" (The Atlantic, Dec. 16, 2021) 

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