COVID Quickly, Episode 19: Mandate Roadblocks, Boosters for All and Sickness in the Zoo

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here .

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to COVID Quickly, a scientific American podcast series.
0:11.6	This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic.
0:14.3	We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus
0:18.3	and the disease.
0:19.3	We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.
0:23.1	I'm Tony Lewis.
0:24.1	I'm Josh Fishman.
0:25.6	And we're a scientific American senior health editors.
0:28.5	On the docket today, a court imperils Biden's big workplace vaccination mandate.
0:33.6	Ooster shot eligibility expands as does evidence the shots help.
0:38.0	And zoo tigers and leopards get COVID and their own vaccine.
0:43.9	In early November, the Biden administration laid out a rule to get more American workers
0:48.3	vaccinated because unvaccinated people were filling up hospitals.
0:52.7	You've been tracking the backlash, Josh.
0:54.8	So what's the latest?
0:56.1	This has not been a good seven days for the White House plan to get millions more Americans
1:00.2	vaccinated by January.
1:01.9	The Occupational Safety and Health Administration at President Biden's direction had announced
1:06.2	an emergency rule.
1:08.0	Companies with more than 100 employees need those workers either to be vaccinated by January
1:12.7	4th or get weekly COVID tests.
1:16.0	And that prompted a number of states and companies to sue the administration in the fifth
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