People take their own COVID-19 test at a newly set-up testing facility in a car park in West Ealing, London, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, after it emerged that the South African strain of the coronavirus ma

What We Know About the New COVID Variants

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 3, 2021

Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times reporter who focuses on science and global health, talks about the latest news on the COVID-19 variants from the U.K. and South Africa, and whether the current vaccines provide protection against them.

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