Governor Newsom hosted a virtual conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci and discussed the variant. "I don't think that Californians should feel this is something odd. This is something that's expected," said Dr. Fauci, who said this about the variant: "There's no indication at all that it increases the virulence, and by virulence I mean the ability to make you sick or kill you." Shannon Bennett is the chief of science at California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. She's a virologist specializing in viruses that emerge from non-human animals - like coronavirus. She explained why the variant may be spreading faster than the viruses we've seen before.