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Agree to Disagree: Booster Shots

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4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The boosters are rolling out. In places likes the U.S., Britain, and Israel, authorities are providing additional Covid-19 vaccines with the goal of bolstering immune systems and shoring up their economies. Though vaccines such as Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech have proven highly effective against the virus, efficacy wanes after six months, rendering older adults and those with weakened immune systems more vulnerable. Yet a debate about fairness, when much of the planet is unvaccinated, is growing.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, this is John Don Van at Intelligence

0:03.2

where US and despite some not so long ago hopes,

0:07.8

this pandemic is not over yet.

0:10.6

Nor is the onslaught that we have seen from the start

0:13.5

of this thing of disagreements about the way

0:16.3

that we are responding to the pandemic.

0:18.6

Some of them, not so nice, some of them quite honest

0:21.7

and principled.

0:23.2

Well, the debate we're about to have now is really

0:25.6

the disagreement of the moment.

0:27.6

Because in this moment, we have vaccines

0:30.8

and we now have clearance from the CDC

0:33.8

for certain large groups of Americans

0:35.8

to get a booster shot.

0:37.9

And the question in this moment is,

0:40.6

should so many Americans be getting shots

0:43.4

for the third time when so many people around the world

0:46.8

have not yet had their first?

0:49.2

My guests today in another episode of our Agree to Disagree

0:52.8

series where we do principled but opposing viewpoints

0:56.5

on our questions.

0:57.4

On this question, it's Dr. Lena Wen and Dr. Ven Gupta.

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