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The promise of off-shore wind energy in New England

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The five turbines of the Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
The five turbines of the Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
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This is the Radio Boston rundown for October 12. Tiziana Dearing is our host.

  • We take listener calls in "Ask the Doctors," with Dr. Sabrina Assoumou from Boston Medical Center and Dr. Helen Boucher from Tufts Medical Center about vaccine mandates in the region, a potential new pill for treating COVID-19, booster shots and more.
  • We get the latest from WBUR reporter Miriam Wasser on the potential of offshore wind here in New England.
  • Retired 4-star Army General Stanley McChrystal, now at Yale, joins us to talk about his new book, on lessons from Boston's early pandemic response, Afghanistan and 9/11 to better understand how we mitigate risk. His new book, coauthored with Anna Butrico, is "Risk: A User's Guide."

This program aired on October 12, 2021.

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