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Same were essentially seeing science play out in action

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here's science the scientific method is about asking a

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question saying...this work and testing it so

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instead of mixing and matching vaccines without science without data

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...are doing the right thing hereactually studying this and seeing at that will work.

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Doctor...there is a dip in cases and hospitalizations as we reported why do you think that is.

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Well, over thanksgiving over christmas over the years people got

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together with family and friends they did so at least some of them without

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mass without social distancing and indoors without good ventilation and we

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saw huge surge after thanksgiving after christmas and new

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year's related to that we know that there is a lag time after infections

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occur

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before people get really sick and up in the hospital and later dies so it's really to be

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expected that about six to eight weeks after holidays like this where people

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got together that you would see a peak in your deaths and then they would finally go down after that

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...doctor...the cdc continues to sound alarms about these new

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...there's a lot we don't know are you concerned that the improving numbers might give

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people a false sense that we've turned a corner on this fight against the virus.

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I am concerned ...you know,... based on the modeling out of the cdc

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the uk variance in particular is predicted to be the dominant

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variance in the us by march and that's a time when you might have

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some families taking spring break so you would have the attitude of the fact of again

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a holiday where people might be socializing not taking all the safety measures on top

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of this far more contagious variant this is not the time to be letting

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our guards down we really need to until everybody who wants to get vaccinated can

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be vaccinated we really do need to double down on the masking the social distancing

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all of the measures we've been talking about for months now.

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Or their signs in any of these variants that suggest to you

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doctor that we could be in for another surge and a bigger one than we've

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ever seen if we're not really careful here this really depends on what we do, you know,

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I think of us as being sort of in a tug-of-war between

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us and the corona virus and yes the vaccines are coming to our

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rescue to help pool on our side of the...but it's almost as if were dropping the

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wrote before the vaccines can make it to help us,

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you know, and, what's problematic about these variances that they're more contagious

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they're more virulent can cause more

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...and some of them may even escape the immune response whether it's

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natural or from the vaccine so it's really important right now that we

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do everything possible to preserve the vaccines to make sure they keep

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working and that means preventing the spread of these new variants.