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How Congress Narrowly Avoided a Government Shutdown; Vaccine Conversations With Hesitant People; Ask the Mayor; Like Working From Home, but at the Office
The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 1, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- On Thursday, the Senate and House passed a short-term spending bill ahead of a midnight deadline which would have shut down the government. Seung Min Kim, White House reporter for The Washington Post, discusses the latest news and what happens next.
- The CDC recently issued an "urgent" plea for pregnant and breastfeeding Americans to get the COVID vaccine, since the risk of complications from COVID for this group of people is high. Uché Blackstock, emergency medicine physician, founder & CEO of Advancing Health Equity and an MSNBC medical contributor, and Veronica Maria Pimentel, attending physician of OBGYN, specialist in maternal fetal medicine, and assistant professor of OBGYN, talk about the risks and how she approaches vaccine-hesitant people to try to convince them to get the shot.
- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Many companies are requiring workers to go back to the office but still conducting remote work practices, like virtual meetings and social distancing. Listeners call in and talk about this strange "worst of both worlds" work moment.
