To boost or not to boost?

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🗓️ 13 July 2021

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Summary

The latest on coronavirus booster shots. What to expect from the Olympic Games with no spectators. And for better or worse: how to survive this summer’s wedding fatigue.

Concerns over booster shots are growing as new coronavirus variants become more pervasive. Yasmeen Abutaleb shares the latest developments on these extra shots domestically and abroad.

Last week, the Japanese government announced all spectators would be banned from Olympic venues in and around Tokyo. Simon Denyer reports on what to expect from the Games without the normal fanfare.

After the pandemic forced many couples to postpone their weddings, the celebrations are back in full force. Ashley Fetters reports on how guests are handling the jam-packed summer wedding season.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post,
0:06.0	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post,
0:08.0	How are you?
0:09.0	He there, it's Simon from the Post.
0:11.0	Hey, it's Dave Farron from the Post.
0:13.0	Have you got a seat?
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:18.0	It's Tuesday, July 13th.
0:24.0	Today, the controversy over COVID vaccine boosters
0:28.0	Japan's Olympics problem and the season of wedding burnout.
0:36.0	What the CDC and the FDA were saying is that right now
0:40.0	we do not need to give people a third shot, a boost,
0:44.0	superimposed upon the two doses you get with the mRNA
0:48.0	and the one dose you get with J&J.
0:52.0	Last Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci went on CNN
0:55.0	to answer questions about the need for vaccine boosters.
0:59.0	This all started last week when Pfizer announced that it was going to seek
1:04.0	emergency authorization from the FDA for a booster shot it had developed.
1:09.0	Yes, mean Abu Talib covers health policy for the post.
1:13.0	That resulted in this unusually public spat between Pfizer and the health agencies.
1:18.0	After Pfizer announced that the Department of Health and Human Services
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