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vin gupta. doctor, the news has largely been good on spread of the coronavirus on the death toll coming down, those still at an unthinkable number. we've now lost three-quarters of a million souls, but we have these hot spots. is it time to get tougher than we've been getting? >> brian, for all your viewers, if i could have your team put up that slide of what we can expect through february of 2022, we're still expecting -- this is what university of washington is putting up, your viewers will see -- potentially on the level of 1,500 daily deaths to pick up december into february. that means 10,000 weekly deaths week over week well into cold and flu season. i was just talking to my colleagues at the university of colorado school of medicine literally a few hours ago, and one of the questions was, why is colorado experiencing this? they have 72% one-dose vaccine uptake rate, 66% of coloradans are fully vaccinated. well, brian, it turns out in the era of this contagious delta variant, we need that

vin gupta, critical care pulmonologist in seattle. he's also ant faculty at the university of washington institute for health metrics and evaluation. always good to see you. look, we heard the criticism from connecticut's governor about confusing messages on booster shots. we're seeing more breakthrough cases right now before the holiday. so here's the key question. do all adults need a booster shot or not? >> yes, chris. good evening. great to see you. they do, but the degree of need depends on who you are. unfortunately, we've lost the ability to have any nuance in our public health messaging. that's just a sad reality and we need to be able to have some nuance because i believe that actually builds trust and minimizes confusion. if you have an underlying condition, that's a must for you to get the booster shot if you haven't already before you travel for the holidays. if you're healthy, less than 65 without serious medical conditions like i just mentioned, it's a nice to have. we know the booster shot at six months will likely miti

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vin gupta. also the host of npr's "full disclosure," robin farzad. josh, i asked you in the last hour whether the president would move to strict travel and you said you hadn't heard anything. sounds like he was listening. >> reporter: that's right, katy. the white house wanted to wait until the variant was designated of concern by the w.h.o. and that's now occurred. the white house is acting on the advice of the president's chief medical adviser dr. anthony fauci as well as the cdc in now putting into place these restrictions which will occur beginning on monday. in addition to south africa, there will be seven other countries that are subject to these new travel restrictions. i'll read them you to. it's botswana, zimbabwe, mows a.m. mozambique, and malawi, as scientists try to learn more about this covid-19 variant circulating in southern africa. now that it's been labeled a variant of concern, they feel comfortable taking this step. this policy will not apply to american citizens and lawful permanent residents, they will still be able to travel to

vin gupta, paul minorities with seattle, he has been it finding us -- for health metrics and evaluations. doctor, vis-À-vis our last conversation in our last segment, here we are back at marketing and labeling again. mandate has become a toxic work maybe wherever frank mumps is that would be more corrupt. consumer, more customer friendly, but be that as it may, how big a rule do mandates, like this play in arresting the spread of a pandemic? >> well, brian, good evening first of all. to quote doctor anthony fauci, this is going to work as we've seen this playbook work already. for united airlines. this specific rule is going to create frictions for employers, a lot of employers with at least 100 employees frankly cannot afford to put up testing. they are going to want to cover the crosses to things that they don't lose their workforce, so that friction is going to be key. here also, i would say, brian, i've been speaking to many organizations across industry. verifications of vaccine status is part and going to be critical. now they are going to have to mandate verification. so we are g

joining us now is doctor vin gupta, criminal care pulmonologist he is -- an evaluation in washington, he's a nonresident fellow and he has worked on the ppe-ology -- over the past decade real expert in the field, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me, good evening. >> so we've talked in the past about the monoclonal antibodies, and the merck antiviral pill which the fda is looking at right now, and the uk just approved. i guess those options, and the other options that your other fellow clinicians have for treating people with covid. how do you feel about this pfizer prospect. >> rachel, will really bullish about this, it's hard to overstate the enthusiasm here, specifically for this means for the world. middle and low income countries, if they can afford it, this medication it is a combination therapy. it's based on a drastic class, that we've long used, for example to target those individuals infected with hiv, or in high petito's, and the idea here for the viewers. if you get infected, within the first few days, this medication stops coronavirus from replicating your lu

doctor vin gupta, critical care pulmonologist, at the faculty for health evaluation at washington. doctor gupta, i always appreciate you being here. thank you so much. >> thank you, appreciated. >> all right, we've got lots more to come tonight, much more on washington, where the democrats might actually maybe be passing the stink tonight. maybe. don't hold me to it. we'll be right back. l be right back. so you both sleep just right. and it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. so, you can really promise better sleep? yes! you'll know exactly how well you slept, night after night. we take care of the science. all you have to do is sleep. don't miss our weekend special. save $1,000 on the sleep number 360 special edition smart bed, now only $1,999. plus, 0% interest for 48 months. ends monday. use a single hr software? nope. we use 11. eleven. why do an expense report from your phone when you can do it from a machine that jams? i just emailed my wife's social security number to the entire company instead of hr, so... please come b

vin gupta. 89% efficacy when cleaned with a low dose of an hiv drug. look, 750,000 people gone from the coronavirus. how does this fit in potentially to the overall strategy to save lives? >> chris, good afternoon, great to see you. it's hard to overstated the importance of this innovation, this new tool in our toolkit. it's fantastic news. 89% effectiveness, for all your viewers out there, let's looked at the data that was presented in a press release, mind you, we don't have other publicly available information. what we do know is that this was a randomized controlled trial. that means about 390 people got the drug. 40 pills over five days after a diagnosis of covid, if they were high risk and unvaccinated. about 390 people didn't get the drug, they got placebo. amongst those who got the drug, three out of 390 got hospitalized with covid. 27 of 390 who got placebo got hospitalized. some of those people ended up dying. 90% effective, chris, that's pretty incredible. this is a class of drugs called protease inhibitors that we've had for decades now, fi

vin gupta, a critical care pulmonologist. rehema, so this is the first time a lot of international travelers can come in nearly two years. what are people saying? >> reporter: we're hearing a lot of people talk about how happy they are, andrea, and not just those who are business travels, but particularly those families who are reuniting after not having been able to see each other for nearly two years. i want to play a little sound with you from one woman, isabella, from brazil. her mother is now holding her 2-year-old granddaughter, who she had not been able to see. and beside them is her son-in-law. this family's extremely happy. take a listen. >> who cried the most when you saw -- when you all saw each other? who cried the most? >> she did. grandma. >> what was it like for you for your mother to be able to see your baby? >> oh, it's so -- i'm so thankful. i'm so thankful for this opportunity to see her. >> reporter: and her husband was who standing beside her he was beaming as well, i have to tell you, andrea. he said his

vin gupta, a pulmonologist and a global health expert. boosters, for all adults and a covid pill are potentially available soon. is this the double whammy that will finally put covid in our rearview mirror? >> good morning, stephanie, great to see you. it's going to be hugely helpful, let's be clear. the pfizer oral pill, this is something that could be given to high risk patients soon after a diagnosis, so really dependent on rapid diagnosis for somebody symptomatic, that's cutting hospitalizations down by 90%. this could revolutionize how we treat covid and ultimately reduce the death toll. the question on boosters ultimately, that's going to be should versus may. what's the language on recommendations, stephanie? should she get the booster? should everybody get the booster or may you get it? that's going to be really key to watch that language. >> to date more than 7.5 billion with a b vaccine shots have been administered globally. 441 million doses here in the u.s. give aus reality check. where would we be right now without the vaccin

vin gupta now, lung doctor, nbc news contributor and faculty member of the university of washington doctor, thank you. for months many have said this age group, 5 to 11, is key to ending the pandemic. well, that's happening so are we almost there at the end? >> good evening, shep. great to see you we're not there quite yet. 10,000 of our fellow citizens, shep, week over week, well into these coming winter months, are going to still die, we suspect, based on forecasts from the university of washington, from this virus so how we define the end of the pandemic probably is going to be in terms of daily and weekly death tolls. we're not there yet. i suspect to all of your viewers out there, end of march 2022, once we're past cold and flu season and once hopefully we're past the worst of covid, that's truly the light at the end of the tunnel >> some school districts are starting to roll back the mask requirement. medically, is that the right move >> i think it's too early to start rolling it back at this moment and yet we need an off-ramp away from masks that's what people are craving, normalcy

vin gupta, affiliate professor at the university of washington, a pulmonologist and msnbc medical contributor. always great to see you. let's start with the timeline of these booster shots because it's the question we keep hearing over and over again, if i just got boosted this week, am i okay to sit at the thanksgiving table tomorrow. >> good morning, chris. the answer is yes. we believe that these booster shots actually give you relatively immediate protection, that boost happens pretty quickly, within, say, 48 hours. so they got a boost on, say, monday or tuesday, come time for thanksgiving dinner, you should be feeling the effects of that and that added protection. >> now the daily average for covid shots has been up a million a day for three weeks. so that's good, right? but most of those are booster shots. are we significantly better off if the vast majority of the unvaccinated are just remaining unvaccinated, what we're really seeing is a push for boosts. >> well, that is the inherent intention here. what we are forecasting at the university of washington is 10,000 weekly deaths, week

vin gupta. i need your help. every day we keep hearing about these vaccine approval meetings, panels. for every parent out there, we don't know what a panel means. fda already signed off on vaccines for kids. what does today's cdc meeting mean? when can we go to our doctor, to a pharmacy and get our kids vaccinated? >> good morning, stephanie. i recognize this is confusing, and there's a lot of discussion here. so unfortunately the way it works is the fda has their own process. now the cdc is basically doing the exact same version. what the fda did last week. so what we're going to see here today is without a doubt, pfizer vaccine will clear the cdc's panel vaccine experts, vote on it. i would -- i would -- i'm confident that this is going to be an overwhelming majority of people, if not, 17-0 will vote in favor approving the vaccine. the pfizer vaccine. a third of the dose for viewers out there, for those between 5 and 11 years of age. safety profile was excellent. no issues of myocarditis. 91% effective prevent

vin gupta, a pulmonologist and msnbc contributor. doctor, always great to see you. how much of a game changer is this fda decision to approve both of these boosters for adults? >> good morning, jose. great to see you. ultimately, this was a decision that they had to make, because over 20 jurisdictions, states, localities across the country have already been doing this. and you can't, as a physician, okay or greenlight a booster for somebody who's not eligible, according to guidelines. that's actually illegal. they needed to do this, because the momentum was picking up here. also, this streamlines communication, of course, and there is a feeling here that we can't actually get back these doses and get them to other parts of the world that need it, that they would otherwise go to waste. so for those reasons, that's why this decision is being made. scientifically, i would say that the greatest need for boosters is those who are high risk. however we choose to define it, and that remains true to this day. >> dr. fauci warned that hospitalizations are surging among the v

vin gupta here. also joining us, "new york times" white house correspondent michael shearer is back. and the former senator claire mccaskill joins us. dr. gupta, i start with you. what do we know about omicron? should we be talking about it, leading newscasts with this story? >> good afternoon, nicolle, that's a great question. this is what we know. lets a start with what we know. we know that south africa is largely unvaccinated. 75% of the country that's eligible to receive the vaccine has up to now said no thank you. what we also know is that pfizer was asked by south african officials to put a stay on additional supply. they, like us r dealing with a distribution problem, a hesitancy problem. we have to get this clear for everybody to get context. what do we also know? it's early recall we are not seeing a run on the hospitals. it suggests that vaccines are holding up, keeping people out of hospital. we need to learn more of course but that is a good initial sign here, not at run on the hospitals

vin gupta, pulmonologist and global health policy expert. so, there's a story that just moved on the "new york times" website, dr. olsterholm is quoted as saying, this thing is throwing curve balls at us. it has repeatedly defied predictions and continues to do so. let me just show our viewers where things are right now. cases are up 29% in the last two weeks. hospitalizations are up 6%. in the last two weeks. death are down 9%, still coming down from the delta surge, but i want to understand your recommendations for the holidays. the "times" article says that despite cases ticking up and in some places being higher than they've been since the spring, everyone is going back to normal. is that what we should be doing? >> good afternoon, nicole. great to see you. absolutely. i think it's okay -- if you are 18 and older, you've gotten your two-shot series, getting a booster if you haven't already, you can get near immediate benefits from that, nicole, within, say, 48 hours. that's when that booster starts to take effect. 50 and older, vital you