‘Next Gen’ COVID vaccines, dairy industry’s existential crisis

“The vaccines that have been with us these past couple of years are still providing good protection against severe disease and death, but they have not curbed COVID — far from it. And then there are many … immunocompromised, elderly Americans who don't have as many tools to protect them because the virus has evolved and challenged what we have available,” says Dan Diamond, Washington Post reporter investigating health politics and policy.

“The vaccines that have been with us these past couple of years are still providing good protection against severe disease and death, but they have not curbed COVID — far from it. And then there are many … immunocompromised, elderly Americans who don't have as many tools to protect them because the virus has evolved and challenged what we have available,” says Dan Diamond, Washington Post reporter investigating health politics and policy. Photo by Shutterstock.

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From this Episode:

Credits

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Sarah Sweeney, Angie Perrin, Michell Eloy, Amy Ta, Brian Hardzinski, Bennett Purser, Marcelle Hutchins, Robin Estrin