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Agree to Disagree: Booster Shots

Agree to Disagree: Booster Shots

with Vin Gupta and Leana Wen

Open to Debate

October 29, 202153m 16s

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Show Notes

The boosters are rolling out. In places likes the U.S., Britain, and Israel, authorities are providing additional Covid-19 vaccines with the goal of bolstering immune systems and shoring up their economies. Though vaccines such as Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech have proven highly effective against the virus, efficacy wanes after six months, rendering older adults and those with weakened immune systems more vulnerable. Yet a debate about fairness, when much of the planet is unvaccinated, is growing. 

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