Getting Answers on Vaccine Boosters
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The process of approving booster shots for the COVID-19 vaccines in the US has been particularly fraught. Last week, two well-respected medical journals published contradictory conclusions regarding the use of vaccine boosters. Dr. Genevieve Kanter joins Deep Background to make sense of the existing research and weigh in on the booster approval process.
Dr. Kanter is an economist and Research Assistant Professor in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Her research focuses on the regulation of biomedical technologies, industry influence in medicine, and statistical methods used for causal inference.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
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| 0:41.5 | From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories behind |
| 0:47.4 | the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. Regular listeners of this podcast know that we view |
| 0:54.1 | one of our chief jobs as |
| 0:56.2 | keeping you updated on the twists and turns of developments relating to COVID, in particular |
| 1:02.4 | when we seem to be at a confusing or complex juncture point in the process. We are at one of those points now, particularly with respect to the |
| 1:14.3 | question of boosters. Back in August, the Biden administration announced that by September 20th, |
| 1:20.5 | they planned to be giving out boosters on a broad scale in the United States. Almost immediately, |
| 1:26.2 | this announcement met with pushback from senior career |
| 1:30.0 | scientists, and then from scientists outside the government, and then ultimately from the |
| 1:35.6 | politically appointed leaders of scientific agencies. Events seemed to come to ahead in the last |
| 1:42.5 | week or so. They were dueling articles in different medical journals, |
| 1:47.0 | The Lancet out of the United Kingdom and the New England Journal of Medicine, |
| 1:50.5 | advising, roughly speaking, different approaches or paths on the booster question. |
| 1:55.0 | Then an advisory committee of scientists and physicians to the FDA, |
| 2:00.5 | focusing on vaccines, had a public meeting |
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