Boosters and Mandates

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4.1 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On Thursday, President Biden announced a number of new policies to fight Covid-19. Chief among them: More vaccine mandates are coming. Now, businesses that employ over 100 workers will have to require those employees to be vaccinated, or to produce a negative Covid test every week. Biden also doubled down on his decision to offer booster shots to fully vaccinated Americans, a move that’s faced some pushback from world health leaders, and from other countries that have been unable to fully vaccinate their own citizens.

This week on Gadget Lab, we talk with WIRED senior writer Maryn McKenna about the ethics of vaccine boosters. Then, Adam Rogers joins us to break down the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate announcements.

Show Notes:

Read Maryn’s story about the US authorizing vaccine booster shots. Read Adam’s story about how to do vaccine mandates the right way. And his story about the data on ivermectin. He also wrote about the ethics of treating vaccinated patients first. Read Angela Watercutter’s story about the trailer for the new Matrix movie.

Recommendations:

Adam recommends the show Motherland: Fort Salem. Lauren recommends the trailer for the new Matrix movie. Mike recommends the Netflix show On the Verge.

Maryn McKenna can be found on Twitter @marynmck. Adam Rogers is @jetjocko. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.

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0:00.0	Lauren.
0:00.7	Mike.
0:01.4	Lauren, how is your post-COVID summer going?
0:03.7	Um, I didn't think we're really post-COVID, Mike.
0:07.3	But I guess it's been okay all things considered.
0:09.4	Yeah, it hasn't exactly worked out the way that we all planned.
0:12.5	But we're going to talk about that today and the gradual return to normal.
0:16.4	All right.
0:16.7	Well, normal can't get here soon enough.
0:26.1	Hi, everyone.
0:27.3	Welcome to Gadget Lab.
0:29.9	I am Michael Collory, a senior editor here at Wired.
0:30.9	And I'm Lauren Good.
0:32.2	I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:36.3	We are also joined this week by Wired Senior Writer, Marin McKenna.
0:37.8	Marin, welcome back to the show.
0:38.7	Thanks, folks.
0:39.6	Of course.
0:45.6	You are Wired's public health reporter, so our listeners may be able to guess that we are talking about vaccines this week.
0:47.7	In the second half of the show, we're going to talk to Wired Senior Correspondent,
0:51.1	Adam Rogers, about the latest news on vaccine mandates.
0:56.0	But first, we have Marin with us to talk about booster shots. Last month, the White House announced that the U.S.
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