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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Toolkit: Answering Your Booster Questions

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Lemonada Media

News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Andy clears up a lot of the confusion surrounding boosters on this must-listen Toolkit with Dr. David Agus and Tom Moriarty of CVS Health. From who can get one to why we need them and where they'll be available, this Toolkit is chock-full of all the latest information on COVID-19 booster shots.

 

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0:00.0

It's CVS Health, they know the women's physical, mental, and sexual health matters.

0:05.0

That's why they're offering new women's health services available nationwide seven days a week.

0:09.0

From heart health, blood pressure, and cholesterol screenings available at miniclinic locations,

0:14.0

to virtual birth control consultations and visits with a board certified provider,

0:18.0

women's health is it an afterthought. It matters.

0:21.0

It's CVS Health. Health here happens together. Learn more at CVSHealth.com.

0:27.0

Lemon out.

0:31.0

I think the logistical lesson on the rollout of the boosters is that they need to have in place the infrastructure to actually distribute those vaccines

0:42.0

and hard to reach communities and hard to reach settings.

0:45.0

I think what the body administration has done here is by backing into an approximate date,

0:49.0

and I know they were beaten up a little bit for putting out a date,

0:52.0

but putting out an approximate date, they're now able to start that planning process in advance,

0:57.0

and so that the boosters are made available by FDA, if FDA does authorize it,

1:01.0

and the advisor community, the CDC, ultimately judges it to be appropriate for a certain population,

1:06.0

they're going to be ready to start making it available in the nursing homes right away,

1:09.0

so there's not going to be a delay.

1:28.0

Welcome in the bubble. I'm your host Andy Slavitt.

1:31.0

Thank you for joining a toolkit episode today.

1:34.0

The voice you just heard was Scott Gottlieb. Scott, the former head of the FDA in the Trump administration,

1:39.0

been on the show before. He's got a new book out, and he's talking about boosters.

1:45.0

And what he's talking about is what we're going to talk about on the show today,

1:48.0

because we have a toolkit episode on how and when and where and how and why to get your booster.

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