What’s in a Mandate? Vaccine Politics

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The U.S. is reporting an average of about 362,000 booster vaccine shots administered per day over the past week, 57% higher than the 231,000 average daily first doses. A key FDA advisory panel is meeting today and tomorrow to discuss the efficacy and safety of extra doses of the Moderna and J&J vaccines. Shellye Archambeau, former MetricStream CEO and Verizon, Okta and Nordstrom board member, discusses how Covid-19 has disrupted the workplace. Carlos Gutierrez, Empath co-founder, former commerce secretary and former Kellogg CEO, and Hubert Joly, former Best Buy CEO, advise CEOs to navigate Covid-19 vaccine requirements while keeping workers safe. Plus, CNBC’s Ylan Mui reports millions of women are missing from the U.S. workplace, and schools reopening in September didn’t help. In this episode: Shellye Archambeau, @ShelArchambeau Carlos Gutierrez, @carlosgutierrez Hubert Joly, @HubertJoly_ Ylan Mui, @ylanmui Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	This is Squag Pod.
0:06.0	I'm C. NBC producer Claire Odumody.
0:08.0	Today on our podcast, Boosters, mandates and vaccination politics politics awaiting an FDA choice on the next possible
0:16.0	booster shot. Now it's crazy so give me one of those and I'll take one of those
0:20.0	next week I'm going to get one of those. How CEOs are getting their workers vaccinated, the former head of Best Buy.
0:27.0	Mandate is a bit of a last resort, but I would not exclude it if it's the necessary approach. But as a last result.
0:33.6	And former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez on the debate to mandate.
0:38.0	I think the objective is keep your employees safe and keep your clients safe and do what you have to do. If you can do it
0:44.9	through encouragement, through motivation, if you can't, then you have to go either all
0:49.4	the way or as far as you can without mandate.
0:52.0	Plus what does the workplace even look like after a pandemic?
0:56.0	Corporate board director Shelley Al Shambour on what workers have lost and gained.
1:00.0	I think what we're facing here, what we're seeing is not so much a back to normal.
1:04.0	I don't think we're ever going back to quote normal, but we are going to go to a new normal.
1:08.0	It's Thursday, October 14th, 2021.
1:11.0	Squat Pot begins right now.
1:13.6	Stand Becky by in three, two, one, cure brief.
1:18.2	Good morning.
1:19.0	Welcome to Squack box here on C.
1:21.0	I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe K Kernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin.
1:24.0	Let's talk a little vaccine news this morning because a study from the National Institute of Health
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