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What A Day

What Have You Got To Boost? with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A CDC advisory board unanimously said that people 65 and older should be allowed to receive a booster shot of the Pfizer-BiONTech COVID vaccine. It also agreed that younger people who might be at high-risk could get a booster as well, but NOT those who are at high risk of being exposed to COVID at their jobs. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, epidemiologist and the host of America Dissected, joins us to breakdown vaccine news. And in headlines: the U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigns, New York City lawmakers move to protect and establish rights for delivery workers, and the White House prepares for a government shutdown. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0

It's Friday, September 24th. I'm Gideon Ressink.

0:08.7

I am Priyanka Arabindi and this is Whata Day. We're calling for Chris Pratt to be recast

0:13.8

in the animated Mario movie as the voice of the tube.

0:17.2

Yeah, he was announced as Mario yesterday, but you know, he could also settle for the sound

0:21.9

the mushroom makes when it hits your head, the like star noise, any of these things,

0:26.3

you'd be great at. There's a lot of options.

0:35.2

On today's show, the US Special Envoy to Haiti has resigned. Plus, West Virginia's governor

0:40.2

could be spending all of his time fighting COVID, but instead he has been fighting to coach

0:44.8

high school basketball recently. Good priorities. Very, very good. But first, we have a lot of news

0:52.6

on the vaccine front about boosters and efficacy and authorizations. So just yesterday,

0:59.0

a CDC advisory board unanimously said that older adults should be allowed to receive a booster

1:04.2

shot of the Pfizer, Biontech, COVID vaccine. That means that people 65 and older might be able

1:10.1

to get a third shot. Also in line would be people younger than that who might be at high risk,

1:15.6

but not those who are regularly exposed to COVID in their jobs, which is different from one FDA

1:20.8

advisory board suggested earlier this week. The final decision on boosters, however,

1:26.0

rests with the full CDC itself, but generally the agency usually follows what the advisory board

1:31.8

suggests. Yeah, and before all of that, on Tuesday, we got some long awaited Johnson and Johnson

1:36.8

news. The company announced that a two dose version of their coronavirus vaccine that is given two

1:42.5

months to part is 94% effective against symptomatic COVID-19. The company also said that adding a booster

1:49.3

dose six months after the first shot is even more effective than that. Okay, very exciting news for

1:55.4

J&J hive. That is a big moment for us. Huge. With all of these developments and ongoing

2:03.2

discussions about boosters, I wanted to take some time to talk to an expert about some of the big

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