Vaccine mandates are a sticky issue - a podcast by Marketplace

A growing list of huge companies, from Google to Walmart and Tyson Foods to United Airlines, have announced they’ll require shots for employees, customers or both. Restaurants and other small businesses are, too. But making a mandate is one thing; figuring out the enforcement, the caveats and the impact is another. On today’s show, MIT Technology Review reporter Mia Sato walks us through how these mandates happened, who gets left out from them and whether corporate America can actually save “hot vax summer” from the surge in delta variant cases.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• Sato’s latest for Technology Review’s Pandemic Technology Project: “The best vaccine incentive might be paid time off“


• “Covid vaccine mandates sweep across corporate America as delta variant spurs action” from CNBC


• “Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Split Corporate America” from The Wall Street Journal


• “Bollinger’s Mill and Burfordville Covered Bridge Featured on Missouri Statehood Stamp” from USPS, plus some background on that bridge


• “Out-of-state healthcare workers coming to Texas as state hits record low ICU beds, Gov. Abbott announces” from KXAN in Austin


• “Senate Passes Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill” from The Wall Street Journal

Read the transcript here.

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