Haitian Immigrants at the Border; COVID Air Travel; How We Got Vaccines; UN General Assembly

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 21, 2021

Coming up on today's show: 

  • As Haiti's political crisis unravels, tens of thousands fleeing violence at home have camped out at the border community of Del Rio, Texas. Adolfo Flores, national security correspondent for immigration at BuzzFeed News, and Natalie Kitroeff, New York Times correspondent, bring the latest.
  • The Biden Administration announced it will end restrictions on air travel for fully vaccinated foreigners to come to the U.S., starting in November. Oriana Pawlyk, aviation reporter for Politico talks about this news and the state of air travel as the pandemic drags on.
  • Paul Offit, professor of pediatrics in the division of infectious diseases and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the author of You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation (Basic Books, 2021), offers insight into some of the messiness behind major medical achievements.
  • Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post columnist and author of Today's WorldView, the Post's international affairs newsletter, discusses the latest news and developments from the United Nations General Assembly, scheduled in New York City this week.

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