Hit Me with Your Third Shot

What A Day

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Biden Administration is expected to announce as soon as today that boosters should be in order for most fully vaccinated people who got either the Pfizer or Moderna shots. The recommended third dose should come approximately eight months after the last shot. But those who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will have to wait on a possible booster shot until results from a study are released in a few weeks. The Taliban has started to speak publicly about its plans for Afghanistan, and offered many reassurances that people who formerly assisted the U.S. and NATO, as well as women, will not be targeted. Those promises, however, have been met with skepticism by Afghan civilians as well as other countries. And in headlines: the legal settlement over the opioid crisis hits a snag, Chris Cuomo finally opens up about his brother, and New Zealand locks down for a single COVID case. Show Notes: NYT: Malala, “I Fear for My Afghan Sisters” – https://nyti.ms/3k3pYBJ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, August 18th. I'm Gideon Russik.
0:08.3	And I'm Priyanka Arabandi and this is What A Day. The podcast that your campus crush
0:12.3	is definitely listening to in their AirPods when you see them walking across the
0:15.7	quad. Yeah, step aside under age drinking. What
0:17.8	a day is the new back to school sensation. And listening to us is way less likely to get
0:23.2	you in trouble with the Dean. Unless they're a daily fan and then we can't help you.
0:26.5	Sorry. Oh my god. Sorry. No. No. On today's show, Chris Cuomo finally speaks out about
0:33.7	his brother plus New Zealand entered a three day lockdown because of one COVID case.
0:38.6	Well, my goodness. But first, a big update on the US and the Biden administration's plans
0:43.5	for COVID booster shots. So the New York Times broke the story on Monday, but they and
0:47.8	others are reporting that the Biden administration is now planning to announce that most fully
0:51.7	vaccine Americans should get a booster shot eight months after receiving their second
0:56.5	dose of either Moderna or Pfizer. So it's possible that we're actually going to see that
1:00.8	formal decision on this this week as early as today. In fact, and that these third shots
1:05.7	could start getting offered to certain people by mid September. Last week, federal officials
1:09.8	gave the green light to booster shots for people with weakened or compromised immune systems.
1:14.2	But what do we know about who will be eligible for a booster when this announcement is made?
1:17.7	Yeah. So according to the reporting right now, it's going to look a little like it did
1:21.4	at the start. So we could see the first dose is going to nursing home residents and frontline
1:25.8	health workers after that. It could be in the same order for when you got the vaccine essentially.
1:31.2	Plus, it appears that people will be given the same vaccine brand as you originally got. So no
1:35.5	mixing and matching or shopping for other options for now. If you're out good, this marks a pretty
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