The Discourse Report: August 11, 2021

The 411 on Delta, the media's abysmal track record on Cuomo, the UN's grim climate report, and more

Welcome to DiscRep, your guide to the public discourse. I’m Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere), editor in chief of Arc Digital.

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1. What to Know About Breakthrough Infections and the Delta Variant by Apoorva Mandavilli in The New York Times on 8/11/21

The vaccines were intended to prevent hospitalization and death, the worst outcomes of infection, in larg…