J&J 'Pause'; Ask the Mayor 'Tryouts': Shaun Donovan; Prison Healthcare; The Stories Our Clothes Tell

Coming up on today's show:

• The public health community has been clear that the best vaccine is the first one available to you, but today, federal health officials called for a "pause" on using the J&J vaccine after several recipients developed a blood clotting disorder.  S. Mitra Kalita, co-founder of URL Media and CEO and publisher of Epicenter-NYC, and Mark Horowitz, family medical practitioner in lower Manhattan, talk about the scientific differences in the shots, and how this news will affect the distribution campaign.

• Shaun Donovan, 2021 mayoral hopeful and former official in both the Bloomberg and Obama administrations, takes calls from listeners about his campaign and the issues facing the City.

• A year after returning home from prison, formerly incarcerated people have a mortality rate nearly four times the national average. Dr. Homer Venters, clinical associate professor at NYU College of Global Public Health and also newly appointed member of the Biden/Harris COVID 19 Health Equity Task Force, and Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises’s executive director, describe how the for-profit healthcare system within jails and prisons often fail patients by ignoring preventative care and neglecting to offer treatments that might hurt their bottom line.

• Emily Spivack, artist, author of Worn in New York: 68 Sartorial Memoirs of the City (Harry N. Abrams, 2017) and now creator of the Netflix docu-series "Worn Stories", talks about her new series, which explores the special meaning people give to certain clothes that they wear.

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.