The Global Vaccination Picture

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 26, 2021

With plans for booster shots to start in September, Wafaa El-Sadr, professor of epidemiology and medicine and director of the Global Health Initiative at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, talks about the status of getting people vaccinated around the world and why vaccinations elsewhere could protect U.S. residents.

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