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Podcast: Science Quickly
Episode: COVID, Quickly, Episode 6: The Real Reason for India's Surge and Mask Liftoff
Description: Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis  and Josh Fischman  catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between.