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New Variant on the Block

Hey waddayaknow? There are more variants in the news. Back when Omicron was first making headlines at the end of last year, we made a Breaking News Consumer's Handbooks: Variant Edition. Brooke spoke to <a href="https://twitter.com/KatherineJWu?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Katherine J. Wu</a>, a staff writer at The Atlantic who covers science, to review the steps a news consumer can take to stay informed minus the anxiety. 

Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Variant Edition 
(Andrea Latimer/WNYC)
For a linkable text equivalent, a pdf version is available <a href="https://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2021/Dec/03/BNCH_VARIANT_EDITION_accessible_optimized.pdf">here.</a>
This is a segment from our December 3rd, 2021 program, <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/pigeon-with-a-mustache-on-the-media">Pigeon With A Mustache</a>.
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