The central part of science reporting is saying, here's what we know, here's what we don't know,

and here's why it doesn't mean the sky is falling.

We wrote a guide for making sense of the known unknowns when it comes to vaccine coverage.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

Plus, while all the pro-labour news coverage leading up to last

week's failed unionization vote in Alabama might not have been all that helpful. I have been in

moments where the media were desperately trying to talk to workers in a campaign, and it was like

walking through a gauntlet trying to get into the union hall for a meeting. It seemed like that was

happening in the Bessemer campaign. And how big companies use propaganda and intimidation to steer

their workers away from unionization. If you see warning signs of potential organizing,

notify your site leader immediately. The most obvious signs would include use of words

associated with unions

like living wage. It's all coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm

Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. This past Wednesday, the advisory committee on

immunization practices, a special panel within the CDC, met for an emergency.

The problem? Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine.

The CDC and FDA just released a joint statement that is calling for an immediate pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose coronavirus vaccine.

This vaccine has already been given to 6.8 million Americans,

and now investigators are looking into six cases of blood clots, all in women, all under the age of 48,

who received that vaccine.

Johnson and Johnson now says it'll delay the rollout of the vaccine in Europe.

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