Consult your doctor.
That's a familiar tagline to medication ads on TV.
Now it's coming to COVID shots.
New recommendations could discourage people from getting vaccinated.
I'm Scott Simon.
And I'm Aisha Roscoe.
This is up first from NPR News.
Experts say COVID-19 vaccines are safe and highly effective.
So they say new steps recommended by a government advisory panel are unnecessary.
More on that in a few minutes.
Plus, as Congress all but assured, a government shutdown, we've got the numbers.
And increasingly blurry lines separate free speech and cancel culture and censorship.
Our media correspondent takes a look.
So please stay with us.
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I'm the host of Wild Card from NPR.
For a lot of my years as a radio host, silence sort of made me nervous.
That pause before an answer, because you don't know what's going on on the other side of the mic.
But these days, I love it.