Problem In H-Town

Is there another lockdown coming because of this new Lambda COVID variant?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A Houston hospital has its first case of the Lambda
variant of the coronavirus, but public health experts say it
is still too soon to tell whether the variant will
rise to the same level of concern as the delta
variant currently raging across the US. About eighty three percent
of COVID nineteen cases in the US are from the

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delta variant, and the vast majority of hospitalizations are among
unvaccinated people. That's according to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. The Lambda variant, on the other hand, has
been identified in less than seven hundred cases in the US,
but has been labeled as a variant of interest. Studies

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suggests that the vaccines currently currently authorized for use in
the US are highly effective at preventing severe COVID nineteen symptoms.
And we all know this and deaths across multiple variants,
getting vaccinated still remains the most important factor in stopping
the virus deadly effects and slowing down new variants. Now

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here's a question for you, guys. Do you think we're
headed toward another lockdown, another mask mandate because there's still
a lot of people shot Listen to me. I have
made the final decision. I'm going to encourage black people
to get this vaccination. Stop calling me and telling me
your theories of why you don't think we should. Let

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me give you a couple of key people in my life.
My in laws got vaccinated. They're in their eighties. They
just celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. They contracted COVID from
their living from their from their nurse that comes to
their house every day. The doctors told them, and everybody
knows is because of their pre existing conditions. Had they

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not been vaccinated, they wouldn't have been celebrating their sixtieth
wedding anniversary that they just celebrated. Last week. A very
good friend of mine who works for me, who was
in his forties, did not get the vaccine was put
in quarantine for ten days. Today, after twelve days of quarantine,

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he was admitted to the hospital. I am praying for him.
His words to me was, man, I wish I had
got that vaccine. I am telling you all, folks, I
don't care what the theories are. You should go and
get vaccinated. It is proven that it lessens the symptoms

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to the point where it doesn't get severe. But everybody
that I know that has not taken the vaccine has suffered,
and I know some people who are not here anymore.
That if you're willing to take that chance, go ahead,
but you may pass on this virus to somebody that
you really don't want to lose, who may not be

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as strong as you. So I am suggesting to all
people to go and get your vaccination. Period. Black people
are dying twice as much and we are suffering from
severe conditions three times as much. All right, I mean well,
said Steve. Coming up more of the Steve Harvey Morning
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