By the end of last year, if you needed a coronavirus test, you could get one. But when vaccines arrived, focus shifted.
Many of the vaccinated felt like they didn’t need tests and demand took a nosedive. Testing sites were closed or converted into vaccination sites. And Abbott Laboratories, a major test manufacturer, wound up destroying millions.
However, ... Show More
Yesterday
Chosen by War: The Rise of Iran’s New Supreme Leader
At the heart of the Iranian regime’s defiant stance toward the United States and Israel in the war is Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader and a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the regime’s longtime ruler. Farnaz Fassihi, who covers Iran for The New York Times, discusses the e ... Show More
33m 54s
Mar 16
A War Within the War: Israel’s Bombardment of Lebanon
With the world’s attention on the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, a second front in the conflict has opened in Lebanon. Israel has pummeled an area in the southern outskirts of Beirut where Hezbollah holds sway, as well as southern Lebanon, with airstrikes, displacing almost one mill ... Show More
25m 58s
Mar 15
The Sunday Daily: To Save His Life, Our Food Critic Reset His Appetite
For 12 years, Pete Wells had his dream job: working as the chief restaurant critic for The New York Times. The job’s journalistic mission required Wells to eat out most nights and taste nearly everything on any given restaurant’s menu. He didn’t realize it at the time, but the ex ... Show More
37m 14s
Dec 2020
Vaccine hesitancy, the next pandemic hurdle
As the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine rolls out across the country, and other vaccines await imminent regulatory approval, many public health experts are focusing on the issue of vaccine hesitancy.
Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam has spoken out about the "moveable m ... Show More
31m 47s
Jul 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on the Delta Variant, Boosters and Masks Indoors (Part 1)
Andy gets answers to listeners’ most important questions from Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in Part 1 of a two-part interview, including how the Pfizer vaccine is holding up against the Delta variant, if we'll need booster shots, the data out of Israel showing waning immunity after si ... Show More
42m 1s