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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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