Booster Coronasode: Shots & Holidays with Vaccine Infodemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

You’re six to ten times LESS likely to catch COVID-19 if you’re vaccinated, and thus less likely to infect others. Great! But what about breakthrough cases? Who’s at risk for them? How many folks haven’t gotten vaccinated? Should pregnant people get the ol’ jab, what might happen with transmission rates in 2022, yearly booster questions, the ethics of vaccine distribution, myocarditis, Long COVID, quarantine fatigue and essentially whether the holidays are a good idea.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's that squirrel building a winter nest in your barbecue.
0:05.9	Alliward, back with an episode, nobody wants.
0:09.8	But everybody needs, here we are.
0:11.8	We're on the cusp of 2022.
0:13.6	It's still weird to wear pants with zippers.
0:16.2	We live on Zoom.
0:17.3	What's happening?
0:18.4	So after watching your ants forehead as she ate mashed potatoes
0:22.8	last year on a screen, everyone's excited for hugs and cookies
0:26.4	and layovers and using their toiletry kits again and scrolling
0:30.9	on their phone as uncles watch football.
0:33.4	So I thought I would absolutely just break my brain
0:36.6	by making an extra urgent coronasode booster
0:40.1	that we recorded yesterday.
0:41.7	It's all about surges, immunity, booster shots,
0:44.9	travel, the forecast of the pandemic.
0:47.5	What are we doing?
0:48.4	Who better to ask than someone you already love?
0:51.4	Anologist you have met in previous coronasodes
0:54.0	who is a microbiologist who earned her masters
0:57.2	in emerging infectious diseases from Georgetown University
1:00.7	School of Medicine.
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