Did You Wash Your Hands?

N.R. is an emergency room physician at a large hospital in metro Atlanta. He shares his experiences dealing with the current wave of the pandemic.

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Dr. Robert Jansen, chief medical officer of the Grady Health System, which runs Georgia's largest hospital, says the current wave of the pandemic could soon be as large at the one that swamped health care facilities this winter.

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Over the course of the pandemic, many communities have turned to the non-profit group CORE for help with COVID-19 testing and vaccination. Ann Lee, CEO of CORE discusses that work.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says even fully vaccinated people can spread the coronavirus. That's based on new research on the high-transmissible delta variant. Dr. Colleen Kraft, and infectious diseases physician and researcher at Emory University, helps unpack what that means for the pandemic.

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U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are pushing a plan to create a federal Medicaid look-alike program to extend health coverage to low income Georgians. Both say the plan was inspired, in part, by the pandemic.

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Christopher Wimer, co-director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, says the expanded child tax credit payments going out to families in July could dramatically reduce child poverty in the country.

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Dr. David Brett-Major, an infectious diseases physician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, says we're still learning a lot about how and why the delta variant of the coronavirus is so troublesome.

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Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, says the pandemic has brought some big changes to the workplace, though it's unclear which will persist.

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Since March of 2020, we've brought you scores of conversations about different aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, we're doing something a little different. Health reporter Sam Whitehead plays the guest and answer questions about the origins of the show and what's coming next.

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Joshua Weitz, a quantitative biologist at Georgia Tech, says some two-thirds of Georgians could have some immune protection against the coronavirus, either through vaccination or natural infection.

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