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And research that shows theyre not as effective as perhaps first thought. what is your concern about people developing long covid each time they get infected? how much does that raise the risk? >> the good news, these vaccines continue to be effective in protection against serious illness. i had several doses of the vaccine and then i had a mild two-day infection. it was no fun, but it wasnt a serious infection. these vaccines are continuing to do what theyre supposed to do. these are more evasi...

For free across the country is clearly superior based on all the data we have than the original vaccine and it is also much better at dealing with the variants circulating right now. >> is he wrong? >> so there were two papers published in this weeks journal of medicine that did the study the right way. they looked at people who got boosted with the monovalent vaccine and compared them to people that got the bivalent vaccine. the answer in both of these studies was no. the good news is this vacc...

Pe person, to not get the bivalent booster? >> there was a study that i think answered this question the best. they found that if youre young and healthy, meaning less than 65 years of age, dont have comorbidities and arent immune compromised, a vaccine probably will give you protection against disease for a while. >> i have all three and then i got covid for a second time and it hit me really hard. im like, wait a second, i got vaccinate three times and its hitting me this hard. that brings me ...

In the first real-world test of vaccine boosters specially designed to protect against the omicron variant, Israeli researchers have found that people 65 and over who got an updated jab

Americans. the bivalent is clearly superior and is better at dealing with variants circulating right now. >> im encouraged to hear that. you can imagine, dr. jha, how this gives fodder to the vaccine s skeptics who say theyre not fully transparent. they just tell you what they want to know. >> exactly. without knowing the specifics of what was presented at the meeting. the principle of openness, transparency, very important. this is why we track this stuff very closely. fda does, cdc does and th...

A bunch of news reports, including deaths not even linked to cardiac arrest, some were the result of cancer. there is a -- inflammation of the heart, but -- vaccine misinformation embathe risk of getting myocards for covid actually -- thats what the data says from the -- shows. the reality is, as of october last, year americans were vaccinated with updated bivalent booster shots had an 18.6 times a lower rate of dying from covid-19 and then unvaccinated did. when tucker carlson, the other journa...

Rise in daily vaccine uptake marks sharp increase from 2,000 recorded early last month, with jump beginning when Hong Kong announced Covid policy rollback.

Seem to be predominant now in new york and you need the bivaletn booster with a paper coming out in the new england journal of medicine suggesting that the old vaccine against the original lineage is not nearly as gooz good as the bivalent in protecting. >> we had christmas yesterday. hanukkah is ending then we have the new year as well when will we start to say okay, weve hit the potential peak of concern based on what you see, normally, watching the numbers here >> it is based on anything on 2...

Different pharmacy, they are in short stock in many places across the country. and know that its not an emergency if you run out of one or the other. the point of these really is to help your kid feel better. they dont actually treat the underlying illness so if you only have one youll be okay. the bigger thing, kate, is that its crazy to me we are in this situation again. how many times do we have to go through the same cycle of running out of medications in parts of the country before we stand...

This. >> 45 million americans have gotten the covid shot. thats the new bivalent booster. but we need more americans to do it and i think theres still people are learning about the fact that we have, you know, moved from getting your shot once and being done to really needing that annual shot. i dont count on my flu shot to protect me this year. same thing for covid. you cant count on your shot from last year to protect you this year. >> what do you think of that? >> so i almost always agree wit...