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The Debate Over COVID-19 Booster Shots

Israel, France, the U.K. and Germany are directly countermanding the WHO's requested moratorium on booster shots. The German Health Ministry says it's a false choice and they can do both. Here to discuss the science and the ethics around all of this are German politician and public health expert Karl Lauterbach and epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who worked on the global eradication of smallpox.

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