COVID, Quickly, Episode 15: Booster Shot Approvals--plus Vaccines for Kids?

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🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here .

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to COVID Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series.
0:11.9	This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic.
0:14.9	We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus
0:18.7	and the disease.
0:20.2	We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.
0:24.0	I'm Tanya Lewis.
0:25.2	I'm Josh Fishman.
0:26.2	And we're Scientific American Senior Health Editors.
0:29.2	Today, we're going to bust through the confusion about booster vaccines.
0:33.2	Who can get them and who can't?
0:35.0	And we'll talk about one group that hasn't even gotten first shots yet.
0:38.7	Kids under 12.
0:40.0	We'll discuss when that could finally happen.
0:44.1	It's been a rollercoaster of news about vaccine booster shots.
0:47.9	Everyone was going to get them, then nobody was going to get them.
0:51.4	What's actually going on, Josh?
0:52.9	A lot of back and forth, Tanya.
0:54.9	But we do have some solid news at last.
0:57.4	And here it is.
0:58.6	The FDA just authorized a third Pfizer vaccine shot for three groups of people.
1:03.8	First, people age 65 and up.
1:06.5	Second, people over 18 who are at high risk,
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