so vaccinations work and boosters optimize the vaccination. having said that, let us all enjoy the holidays. now over to you, dr. murthy. dr. murthy: thanks dr. fauci, it is good to be with everyone today. i want to speak about misinformation and our efforts to fight misinformation. a few months ago my office released an advisory on information which -- inaccurate or misleading information according to the best evidence of the time. this is an urgent public health threat. i've been inspired by people all over the country who have stepped up to confront misinformation. i've heard from doctors, nurses and pharmacists talking about schools, and health officials who are making this a priority. a couple weeks ago i joined hundreds of people who share the truth about the vaccine with their committee. we are continuing to meet people where they are today and we are also happy to welcome the singer and philanthropist to the white house where she will participate and -- these are a few of the many encouraging steps we've seen of the last two months. de

yes adults, covid 19 vaccinations are steady. 74% of u.s. adults are vaccinated. that is more than the early current immunity thresholds. if that is the case, what would herd immunity do? guest: herd immunity was the holy grail, but it is not something we should be trying to pursue, especially with a virus that is able to you take. maybe if we were still dealing with the wuhan strain, wheat would be above that threshold. we saw dramatic drops with the also variant 40% fully vaccinated, but the delta variant raises the threshold for what level of the population needs to be immune. the proper goat with covid is to make sure that high-risk people are fully vaccinated, boosted, have access to treatment. we cannot eradicate this virus. our goal is to make it more like other respiratory viruses. that means that we may not ever reach herd immunity, but we will have it become a more manageable infection -- one that does not threaten the hospital cassidy, one for which he have a toolbox of medication. host: have there been recent breakthroughs in treatments? guest: breakth

and folks who have not yet gotten vaccinate, please get vaccinated. it's easy, it's accessible, and it's free. you can do this. god bless you all, and i will take a few questions. >> mr. president! [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

vaccine. it was activated with a chemical. he tested it in 700 children in the pittsburgh area and he found it to be safe and he felt comfortable. this is coming up now because i am on the fda advisory. we are going through several thousand trial studies for the five to 11 year olds. so i'm getting to that in this context. but he was happy. he said, i've got it. he tells his wife, i've got it. the march of dimes -- he did not want to inoculate children with a -- polio season. but nonetheless that was what was done. nevertheless, many children got salk's vaccine. others got placebo. and then -- headed that trial and -- in his words -- one of the headlines of the newspaper was that church bells rang out and that -- stopped and loudspeaker was over the voice and at last -- polio -- but how do we know it was effective? we know is effective because -- children died of polio in that study. we know it was effective because were paralyzed in that study. those were first and second graders in 1950. i w

there is a shingles vaccine, a chickenpox vaccine. this is the same principle. it's not like covid is isolated over here and totally different than most other infectious disease that we see. when you look at information, you've got to put it in the context of all infectious diseases. that's what the experts do. we can quibble about the meaning of data. you can look at one study and i can look at another, what's really important is we think about it openly and honestly and have this dialogue. i'm not here to give you misinformation. i am here to give you the truth as i see it as a research scientist who studies infections for 40 years. i don't have an agenda other than to tell things as i see them. in the case of that team, that's why we recommend boosters. i can't respond any more than just to tell you i don't have an agenda other than to tell you the truth. host: these 5-11-year-olds who have been approved for the vaccine, many of them likely have the first shot but won't get the second until after thanksgiving. is there a concern there? guest: there is some go

from vaccines to boosters, to vaccines for children. one year ago america was >> and live now to the white house covid-19 response team briefing. we are expecting to hear about the biden administration's approach to the omicron variant. jeff: this new variant is cause for concern but not panic because we now have the tools we need to confront this variant and continue to make proimpress in the war against the virus. we have vaccines for everyone ages 5 and up. boosters that provide the highest level of protection. significant genomic sequences and testing capacity to detect cases early. and lifesaving therapeutics. so we have more tools than ever before. we are prepared and will continue to be guided by science and stay vigilant to keep people safe. now over to you dr. fauci. dr. fauci: thank you very much, jeff. i want to talk a little bit about the details of this omicron variant. so if i could have the first slide, just to put it in some perspective, this is a list of the variants of concerns we had to deal with, what their designati

first, regarding vaccines, fda has authorized three covid-19 vaccines and approved one vaccine. these have met fda's expectations for safety and effectiveness appropriate for authorization or approval in preventing covid-19. in the last few weeks the agency's made additional critical decisions about the use of these vaccines. fda-authorized booster doses for use in certain populations for all three authorized vaccines as you have just heard from our other witnesses. as more data became available, the data suggested the effectiveness of the initial docs had started to wane. means that use of a booster dose would be important in bolstering protection for these populations. and the agency also authorized the use of mix and match booster doses for covid-19, using data from niad as was just mentioned. this means eligible individuals can get any of three authorized vaccines as their booster dose and really simplifies availability for the public. also fda authorized the pfizer vaccine in children 5-11. i know because i've had many messages on this. many parents have been waiting impati

vaccine. nearly 70% have been fully vaccinated, and inequities in vaccination numbers have been narrowing we are also already seeing how requirements for vaccines are testing like president biden has called for in which clear majority of americans support can bring vaccination rates even higher. as of last month vaccine requirements had increased vaccination rates by over 20%. united airlines has seen the vaccination rate for employees go from 57 to 99% 99% sincey announced their vaccine requirement. tyson foods went from less than half of its workers vaccinated to over 96%. in my home state of washington, 15th and 16 of our states workers authority complied with the governor vaccine requirement. across the country healthcare facilities, universities and other employers are seeing similar results. and i expect that progress to continue now that the department of labor has put forward an emergency temporary standard on this issue. we are also seeing progress on booster shots with three differen

vaccine. so the point is you have systems in place now that can detect as rare as a blood clotting phenomenon which is one per 500,000 people or the myocarditis is a one up 50000 people. these are extremely rare these tragedies in the past that led to the systems that allow us to monitor vaccines in this case the post approval. again i think you are right. an enormous level of distrust continue to not get this vaccine despite the fact the evidence i can save your life could not be clearer. >> as someone in the scientific medical community, what do you think our role is and communicating to the public? what advice would you give to other researchers to play their part to promote trust in the system? unlike those systems trustworthy? >> i think perhaps the purpose for me in writing this book to let people know you learn as you go. you always learn as you go. i think what happens the series of tragedies the resulted in an enormous amount of harm. therefore you cannot trust science you cannot trus

vaccinated. our workers are still suffering from the worst workplace crisis in recent history. workplace covid-19 outbreaks are continuing to endanger workers and their families and many of these outbreaks have been linked to unvaccinated workers. of the largest employers in the country have vaccination permits and more stepping up. after months of the vaccine being free and available is clear that the most effective way to boost vaccination rates is through workplace vaccination requirements. this is why the occupational safety and health administration issued an emergency temporary standard that requires employees -- employers to implement vaccination testing policies for their workers. the standard will go a long way toward fulfilling our alternate responsibility during this pandemic which will save lives in the pandemic -- and in the pandemic. i hope my colleagues will agree that workplace vaccination requirements are critical to the safety of our economy and protecting the health of workers,

and if you are not vaccinated, now's the time to get vaccinated and take your children to be vaccinated. pres. biden: every child age five or older can get safe, effective vaccines now. while it will be a few weeks before we know everything we need to know about how strongly the existing vaccines protect against the new variant, dr. fauci is with me today, of our medical team, and i believe that the vaccines will continue to provide a degree of protection against severe disease. and as additional protections, please wear your masks when you're indoors, in public settings, around other people. it protects you. it protects those around you. third, in the event, hopefully unlikely, that updated vaccinations or boosters are needed to respond to this new variant, we will accelerate their development and deployment with every available tool. i want to reiterate, dr. fauci believes that the current vaccines provide at least some protection against the new variant, and the boosters strengthen that protection significantly. we do not yet believe that additional measures will be needed. but so th

the vaccine is. the first and most important thing is to listen to people's concerns. jonathan: let's get into the social determinants. the cdc research shows the more traumatic events a person suffers in childhood, physical, sexual, emotional abuse, domestic violence, you name it. the more likely that person is to suffer from chronic health issues later in life. talk about how a children's mental health affect their future health outcome. dr. perrin: that is a super question. we know so much about the incredibly -- about the incredible importance of the first four or five years of life. it is unbelievably -- unbelievable what we know about the development of the human brain this time. we know negative expenses affect how the brain works and will affect how the person's brain works throughout their life. it is important to deal with these negative events early on. we know that in the united states over the last decade, we have had rising death rates among people of working age in this country. those

very quickly on vaccination, 60 million people eligible but not vaccinated. we need to understand first of all that this was not unexpected. we almost lost our measles eradication status in 2019. we have been seeing this occur over the past decade. so we need to understand that vaccine hesitancy has been growing in this country. we need to make sure we are using political distinctions to engage people versus attack people. i have been very concerned about how we have been using political distinction as a bludgeon to demonize people, to attack people and not as a way to engage people. you heard senator frist talk about how there are not enough conservatives involved in the conversation. i can tell you, i'm an independent but i am seen being part of a conservative administration. you are often told you are not welcome to this conversation if you are a conservative. we don't want to work with you. that's the message that lot of these unvaccinated people are getting. that pushes them away. it doesn't engage them. finally, we need to understand the root causes. it

from vaccines to boosters, to vaccines for children, 5 years and older and much more. a year ago, america was floundering against the 1st barren of covey. we beat at variance significantly, and then we got hit by a far more powerful threat. the delivery. but we took action and now we're seeing does some delta come down? we'll fight them and look, we're going to fight and beat this new variant as well. we're learning more about this new varied every single day. and as we learn more, we're going to share that information with the american people candidly and promptly. second, the best protection i know you're tired, amy said, is the best protection against this new version or any of the of the various up here. but once we've been dealing with already, is getting fully vaccinated and getting a booster shot. most americans are fully vaccinated, but not yet boosted. if you're 18 years are over and got fully vaccinated before june, the 1st go get the booster shot today. they're free, and they're available at $80000.00 locations coast to coast. a fully vaccinated booster pers

the vaccine is. the first and most important thing is to listen to people's concerns. jonathan: let's get into the social determinants. the cdc research shows the more traumatic events a person suffers in childhood, physical, sexual, emotional abuse, domestic violence, you name it. the more likely that person is to suffer from chronic health issues later in life. talk about how a children's mental health affect their future health outcome. dr. perrin: that is a super question. we know so much about the incredibly -- about the incredible importance of the first four or five years of life. it is unbelievably -- unbelievable what we know about the development of the human brain this time. we know negative expenses affect how the brain works and will affect how the person's brain works throughout their life. it is important to deal with these negative events early on. we know that in the united states over the last decade, we have had rising death rates among people of working age in this country. those

second is vaccination. we need to vaccinate. that way we can reduce the number of people who are going to be seriously ill and be less of a threat on her systems and have fewer people who can be able to spread the virus more efficiently. finally is misinformation. human beings come if they are given correct information, they tend to react in a positive way. there will always that -- always be that part of society that will not react in a positive way. how fast we do it and how effectively we teach the population and ensuring the population with those responsible for guiding and correlating the response. currently, we are not doing enough providing that and need to do it more effectively. dareen: thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate your time. thank you for watching. you can see the program anytime by visiting our website, al jazeera.com. for further discussion, go to our facebook page. you can join the conversation on twitter. from myself and the whole team here, thank you for watching. goodbye for now. â– ?â– ? ♪â™

i am vaccinated. what we need to do -- i don't know so much about praying -- but what i do know is that we need to definitely be supporting the labs in south africa which are trying to find out how the virus is affected by the current vaccine modalities we have and then pumping lots of dollars down to those labs to try to hold -- hold into that part of the world as possible. that is what we failed to do at the beginning of the covid situation is put our technology and our dollars and vaccines into the parts of the world that were most affected initially. host: james, do you plan on altering any of your holiday plans now that you know this very is out there, omicron is out there? a lot of people planned over the holidays. for example, this weekend is a big college football weekend. there will be stadiums full of people and we have christmas and new year's coming up. does the knowledge that this strain, omicron, is out there, does that mean you are going to change anything you have planned to do? caller

those who don't get the vaccine are afraid of the vaccine and mad at people pressing them to get it. those i understand. they are very good people. they are decent people. they have a fear and it is understandable and they don't want to take chances. but there is a very small part of professionals which they circulate, on purpose, misinformation so they will mislead those that have concerns. they are criminals. they literally cost millions of lives. >> and should be treated as criminals as well those who have done that. you have also come to see close up -- we did not know them before the inequities and global healthcare system -- which also has influence on recovering from covid-19. have you learned anything during this time about how one can overcome them and how did you have to work within them to navigate this period? >> could you repeat the question? >> how you view the global healthcare system. >> that was a very, very big issue. i realized this polarization, for example, when the vaccine would become available. to make sure the vaccine is available there are two things we have

are leaking vaccines. people that get these vaccines can get coronavirus. is that true? >> these vaccines, congressman, you and i over our colleagues -- over our careers, we trained together at hopkins and i think we have seen a lot of vaccine development. i have never seen vaccines developed in this short a period of time that are this effective. they are remarkably effective. no medicine, no therapy is 100% effective. you and i know that. but, these are remarkably effective. >> but they are not as effective as we hoped they would be. i don't think anyone anticipated that we would get boosters in six months. i am just telling you. i tell -- i talk to people out in the real world. they were promised that these vaccines were like the others they have taken. if they got the vaccine, they would not have to get a booster in six months. i don't think there is any other vaccine we administer that you get a booster in six months. is that correct? >> go back to your basic immunology. remember that? >> i have very

we have enough vaccines, pfizer vaccine, for every child age 5 through 11. the whole distribution plan we have been talking about, 20,000 sites, millions of doses being shipped as we speak, is all pfizer vaccine. we do not have any u.a., as you know, for this age group for moderna. so we have already plans and in the process of shipping 15 million doses out nationwide with millions more doses available each and every week. states have chosen where within their state to send vaccine supply. they will be able to get additional doses, as i said, each and every week. the federal government is sending vaccines directly to pharmacies and community health centers, which will in turn administer vaccines to kids. this is how we think is the best way to manage the supply chain of pfizer vaccines, with states having the benefit of seeing where the demand is strongest and allocating more and more to those locations, going forward. we are in great shape on supply. and the whole plan is based on pfizer vaccines. so, we have more than enough vaccine for every child 5 to 11

of the vaccine for kids ages five through 11 this week we can make sure more vaccinated children can stay in school. these plans i have implemented economic success, rescue, and vaccination plans, both of them have made the economy the envy of the world. we are the fastest growing major economy and one creating jobs at a faster pace than now. yes, there is a lot more to be done. we still have to tackle the cost of american families facing, but this recovery is faster stronger -- faster, stronger, and wider than anyone could've predicted but we went to make sure people continue to feel in their bank accounts, hopes and expectations for tomorrow that is better than today, making sure our recovery is fully felt. to determine that it depends on two things entirely within our reach. first, for our economy to fully recover we need to keep driving vaccinations up and covid down. in that effort we took two major steps this week. on tuesday, the cdc recommended covid-19 for vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11. we are prepared for this moment by securing vaccines for every sin

the vaccination efficacy was nearly 91% in preventing the covid-19 vaccine. the fda advisory committee reviewed safety data from an additional 2000 children who received the vaccine and found no severe adverse effects. and reported post vaccine symptoms, including soreness at the site, headache, muscle aches and low-grade fever that were similar to the adult population. with these safety and efficacy results, the fda authorized the covid-19 vaccine for children ages five to 11 on friday. tomorrow, the cdc advisory committee on immunization practices will need to have their transparent, open conversation on data for vaccine effectiveness, safety and clinical need for ages five to 11. throughout the pandemic, this commit has convened many times to review the latest data and provide their trusted expertise. and i, along with many others have been looking forward to the scientific discussion and liberation that will take place. following the meeting, the cdc will release its recommendation for vaccination of children ages five to 11. we know children have differe

let's say you get the vaccine, go ahead and get the vaccine, if that's what you want to do, get the vaccine. don't force it on anybody else. we know -- and by the way, media, they're not telling us that people are suffering as a result of getting the vaccine. they have all kinds of problems. i understand it might be the miniscule, but when you're the one out of 30,000 that gets it, it's important to you, so we need to tell the good, the bad and the ugly about the vaccine. >> before i let you go i want to ask you about what happened in wisconsin this past week. a jury acquitted kyle rittenhouse of all charges and accepted his argument that he acted in self-defense when he killed two people in kenosha last year and wounded another. a number of republican elected officials and other voices on the right of celebrating rittenhouse as a hero. do you think his actions should be lionized? >> you know what i think? i think we ought to let the american justice system speak for itself, and i'm going to quote our current president, president biden, and he said, "it's time to move on." so let's heal. th

genic vaccine. it was also cost effective and logistically sound to produce. now it seems to take all those boxes so far and, but just for more details on the science, we can hear little snippet that report. the composition of sputnik light vaccine is equal to the 1st component of t dos. put nick, the vaccine for which safety and immunity, misty, we're assess, a number of completed and ongoing clinical trials now. so what does all this mean? well, sputnik light can be administered as a single job job as i have a stand alone vaccine or a booster. and it's shown effectiveness in both of those roles against the delta variant. it has shown a 70 percent effectiveness against infection. and that number is a little bit higher on 75 percent effectiveness in individuals on that 65. now, when combined with all the vaccines such as the astrazeneca vaccine, it has also shown a high efficiency. but when administered as a booster shot against the delta variant is 83 percent effective against infection and a littl

, some form of vaccine. and i understand that pfizer is introducing another one as well. i think that might be correct. and do you think that if that is going to make a difference in terms of persuading people that a vaccine is, is able to be taken? is a pill easier to understand if you like, than an injection? is it less frightening? will it actually make a difference? so this is anti virus, are these, these pills and they are indeed important additional tools they cannot replace vaccines. remember, vaccines are meant to prevent cases, so you want to bring down the cases. if you don't prevent, you will just have, you know, an explosive rose again of cases. and even if you now can treat some of them with a success rate of only about 50 percent, you will still overwhelm hospitals. so yes, we embrace every drug treatment. we need to manage these it's a very ill patients. but a, but really to, to help us get out of this tragic condemning with the strongest tool that we have at hand is a high, maxine coverage ra

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childhood vaccines. and we're seeing big outbreaks now. of things like yellow fever, we've had big outbreaks of measles, and we're seeing a decline in routine immunization coverage in some countries. so we might be trying to fix one problem, but we're creating in the medium term, a huge problem in terms of other vaccine preventables diseases. so my appeal to countries would be that we have to invest in supporting, particularly the least while resource countries and was region to be able to roll as vaccines. julian, when pharmaceutical companies, pfizer astrazeneca mcdonough and of a vox say that the basically have plans in place to adopt the new variance. are they talking about a new dose? are you talking about a new model molecule make up of the dose itself? are they talking about a booster? are they talking about a new approach that could really take more effort, more time to be able to have a new vaccine that go there will be able to cope with this particular variance if it proves to be really aggress

vaccine works. so there's a lot of nuance out there. should we be concerned about that loss of nuance. and if so why. >> it's been interesting to see this the way this plays out. i was fortunate to be part of a team at children's hospital philadelphia that created the strain that became the rotavirus vaccine. i certainly got to watch that vaccine from bench to bedside and i'm only all too grateful that the people who work indicating that vaccine are not the people who are communicating. i think there have been at least three major communication errors with this vaccine in terms of whether you're getting the first is use of breakthrough. if you're given a vaccine and you have a file, mildly symptomatic infection or an asymptomatic infection you want, that's the goal. the goal of this is to protect against serious illness. the kind that causes you to seek medical attention. that's the goal. it's the rare vaccine that prevents asymptomatic infection or mild asymptomatic infection when brett kavanaugh h

from vaccines to boosters. 2 vaccines for children. 5 years and older and much more. a year ago america's flounder in against the first variant of covid. we beat that very significantly and then we got hit by 4 more powerful threat. the delta variant. but we took action. and now we're seeing that some delta come down. we'll fight look, we're going to fight and beat this new variant as well. we're learning more about this new variant every single day. and as we learn more, we're going to share that information with american people. candidly him promptly. second. the best protection. i know you're tired me says the best protection against this new variant or any of the of the various health. they're the ones we've been dealing with already. he's getting fully vaccinated. and getting a booster ehot. most americans are fully vaccinated but not yet boosted. if you're 18 years or over and got fully vaccinated before june. the first go get the booster shot today. they're free and there are available to 80,000 locations coast to coast. fully vaccinated booster person is the m

no for gives a vaccine, some form of vaccine. and i understand that pfizer is introducing another one as well. i think that might be correct. and do you think that if that is going to make a difference in terms of persuading people that are vaccine is, is able to be taken is a pill easier to understand if you like, than an injection? is it less frightening? will it actually make a difference? so this is anti virus, are these, these pills and they are indeed important additional tools. they cannot replace the vaccines. remember, vaccines are meant to prevent cases, so you want to bring down the cases. if you don't prevent, you will just have, you know, an explosive rose again of cases and even if you now can treat some of them with a success rate of only about 50 percent, you will still overwhelm hospitals. so yes, we embrace every drug treatment we need to manage these. it's a very ill patients, but a but really to, to help us get out of this tragic condemning with the strongest tool that we have at hand is a high, maxine coverag

in 1900 vaccine. it is difficult to imagine a greater need for transparency than immediate disclosure of the documents relied upon by the f d. a to license a product that is now being mandated over 100000000 americans. we have a situation here where, because there has been a freedom of information act request filed for the information about how the vaccines were approved. we have the us food and drug administration stepping forward and proposing to release $500.00 pages per month of the remaining $329000.00 pages. that would take roughly 55 years 55 years for this information to be made available. now the organization that filed the, the request public health and medical professionals for transparency says that if that pace of 500 pages per month proceeds that makes the freedom of information, act almost meaningless. and it discredits the food and drug administration is promise to be transparent, the f. d. a knew the intense public interest in that data and information. it should have been preparing t

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executing across a number of fronts for vaccinating the end vaccinating to getting booster shots to tens of millions of eligible americans, to standing up our vaccination program for kids ages five through 11. with that, over to doctor wilensky. l>> i will begin with a closer look at the pandemic at the end of last week the seven-day average was about 69000 cases per day and that is a decrease of 3 percent over the previous week the seven-day average was about 5100 per day of a decrease of about 10 percent and theda seven-day average daily deaths is 1100 a decrease of 10 percent over the prior week looking at the plans we have in place for distribution for children ages between five and 11. today i can provide an update where we are in the regulatory and recommendation process there has been a great deal of anticipation with the recommendations and i deeply understand the urgency and concern with the best protection to our children against the virus speaking with you last week the advisory committee had just met with that described covid vaccine efficacy in children pfizer submitted

i was told that boosting the vaccination programme was more important because even if it turns out vaccines are less good at stopping infection from the new variant, they could still offer protection against serious illness. we must boost the defences we have, which is why booster vaccines are so important, and go really hard and quick to get those booster vaccines across as many people as possible. the prime minister was criticised for not acting swiftly enough in the face of the delta variant. this time he is acting quickly, but the opposition say that in england he should be going further than the restrictions that he's willing to introduce. the government's plan b has always been our plan a. we think that mask wearing should be commonplace in public spaces, especially indoors, we think that people should be able to work from home where that is possible. i think we should have been doing all those things already, so of course we want them to be doing that now. the government say the new measures are targeted at slowing the spread of the 0micron variant, buying time for vaccines to be mod

and they don't really need much selling of the vaccine or much detailing on the vaccine whereas there are places where they are skeptical of vaccines and they always been skeptical and i think that's that makes it very difficult. what i think is sometimes a top-down message where it's es kind of one-size-fits-all don't work and what seems to work best is when individual people can talk to their doctors about what questions they may have about the vaccines and kind of get those questions answered at the point of care and then make those decisions then rather than curing it on television or hearing or seeing public service announcements that seems to work better when you're trying to push people towards the right decision when it comes to vaccination and i think we've done a lot less of that and we needed to. for example the rollout of the vaccines wasn't as primary care doctors offices, it's in idioms and places like that where people don't have prcontact. they can't sit down with her doctor and that was a mistake . we should have enlisted more internal medicine doctors is like reviewi

if you have not yet been vaccinated, get vaccinated. we know now from overwhelming data vaccines prevent infections, hospitalizations, and save lives. now we ask the question -- do we need boosters? next slide. as shown on this slide, it is clear now from a number of studies, including this from the u.s. veterans a study, published in science, just a couple of weeks ago, if you will look at the left-hand part of the slide and go from march to september, and take a look at winning immunity against infection, with the johnson & johnson, moderna, and pfizer biontech, as you go from month-to-month, the immunity clearly wanes. the effectiveness overall against infection declines from 87.9% to 48.1%, as well as the vaccine against the vaccine efficacy against death -- as well as the vaccine efficacy against death. so we know we need booster's. but do they work? next slide. i'm going to go through a few studies from different places. this is an is really study -- an israeli study looking at individuals that after their second dose compared to

if the long term plan is to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate as us to live on the line was saying? and the short term is to not lock things down. what's in between, what can be done that is effective but isn't going to damage economies and frankly upset a lot of people. yeah. you know, i think it's really important to recognize it. what you said on your show a little earlier that, you know, our house is already on fire from delta. we have a media right now. and so really none of this variance stuff changes what we need to do on an individual level right now. unless of course, you weren't doing anything before, so get back in, eating it, boost dead, have ventilated space is use mass. if you have them done at test isley, if you're positive and most important, encourage others to do the same doctor hadn't great talking to you talk to kate and jeff, lena in texas, i thank you. we really appreciate that. that perspective. i want to go back to south africa now pretoria and president, sarah reporter who still speaking up with these countries that have imposed travel bands on our country a

have not yet gotten vaccinated. superimposed upon that, the fact that unquestionably the people who got vaccinated six, seven, eight, nine, 10 months ago, we're starting to see an understandable diminution in the level of immunity. it's called waning immunity. and it was seen more emphatically in other countries before we saw it here. for example, israel, which is usually about a month or a month and a half ahead of us temporally, with regard to the dynamics of the outbreak, the administration of vaccines, and most recently boosters. so now we know that although the vaccines are very effective, and the data that you look at are incontrovertible, that if you compare vaccinated with unvaccinated infections, hospitalizations, death, dramatically, multi, multi-fold more in those who are unvaccinated. however, given the waning of immunity, right now boosters are going to be very important. >> brennan: you sailed in the past that you would like to get under 10,000 infections a day in order to sort of live with covid. >> r

vaccine and delta vaccine but we never use for the same reasons. so doing the same with omicron right now. we will not have wasted any time. >> so, you -- so you put resources into developing a vaccine for delta when delta was rising in the thought that it might -- if that became the dominant strain and the current vaccine didn't work, you would have that ready to go but you didn't use that? >> exactly. and the same. exactly the same. >> so, moderna's chief medical officer says his company is also developing an omicron-specific booster that would take two to three months to get into testing and then production. you said pfizer could do the same 100 days or less. is that a window that can be narrowed depending on how the -- the work goes? >> i think, likely, would be the window because we have measured it twice almost to the day. this means that around 60 days on the development, we will have clinical production of a vaccine so that we can go and test it in humans. and then, within 95 days, we will have the full results of -- of this trial. and the

keep in mind this vaccine has been given to millions of people. i'm optimistic that the research will look positive in young kids. and i know that scientists take this very seriously. they do not want to offer something that will harm people. as a doctor, i don't want to advocate for something i don't think is safe. i promise hope is coming. we're almost at the end of this. but for those who are unvaccinated, you are still at risk for getting the virus itself. so keep with the social distancing and masking. >> brennan: the c.d.c. director is concerned that only a third of women are vaccinated. if you were vaccinated while pregnant, what do you tell your patients about those children they bring into you? are those children protected? >> doctor: good question. we anticipate if someone was infected during pregnancy or given the vaccine, there is a chance they have some protection with the antibodies shared with the child. and there is also protection if your breastfeeding. but we don't know how protected that child is. we don't want you to assume you

but he also value these antibodies act like a vaccine. they, they give you the anti bodies directly and that protection might last for up to a year. now you might say, well, why do we need that? we call that seems when the problem is, if you've got cancer, if you haven't chemotherapy, if you got on other immune suppressing drugs, if you thought they had an organ transplant, you perhaps can't rely on being able to make those antibodies for yourself. and whilst vaccinations great in lifting lockdown for you and me to some other people that becomes a prison sentence because they can't get asked about anymore, because there are lots of people and they haven't managed a good enough noun response. so this is, these new treatments are very, very good news. i think the people such as that because it releases them from their own or self imposed lockdown and offers them yet another prevention. something putting it in the round. if we all, babe sent to play, keep distance is where most of the sensible things wash our hands, the alcohol gel, et ceter