Coronavirus Conversations: The latest on COVID-19 variants and rapid testing
Cemetery workers transport the coffin that contains the remains of Sgt. Jorge Luis Pereira da Silva, 54, who died from COVID-19, as military policemen receive his body with full honors at the Campo da Esperanca cemetery in Brasilia, Brazil, March 23, 2021.
With several vaccines approved, health authorities around the world are racing to inoculate populations before new, potentially more dangerous, variants of the coronavirus spread. What are the implications of the COVID-19 variants? As part of The World’s regular series of conversations on the pandemic, and as a special in our podcast feed, reporter Elana Gordon moderated a discussion with Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina.
Find more of our Coronavirus Conversations series here: https://www.theworld.org/coronavirus-conversations