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Boosters since august now. so for over a month. but take a look at what has happened to their overall cases. cases are actually higher now than they have ever been despite that high vaccination rate and even the instigation of boosters. so it really raises the question, are positive cases, are breakthrough cases really going to be the metric that the fda is going to use to determine whether or not people should receive a booster. we dont know the answer to this. in the past typically weve had a ...

And people who are more medically vulnerable. >> reporter: an estimated a 5.2 million people could be he will good i believe for a booster shot though there is still debate among doctors and public health experts on how effective that shot would be. >> giving more vaccines to people already vaccinated will do very little to short of lessen the burden on hospitals. you have to get the unvaccinated vaccinated in order to really change the course of the pandemic. >> i was one of the biggest skeptic...

Its worth paying attention to. so lets look at whats been happening in israel. you look, again, very high vaccination rates, higher than the united states. even after they -- even with those vaccination rates and even after starting to boost they still have some of the highest seven-day average of new coronavirus cases. now, many of those patients arent ending up in the hospital. theyre not dying. so thats good. but they are testing positive. they are these breakthrough cases. and i think its go...

We going -- are we going to pivot and really hinge a lot of our decisions on breakthrough cases? >> uh-huh. >> because they dont necessarily correlate with the level of vaccination or boosting. >> but i think what -- what you said last was important. that their hospitalization rates and their death rates are down, right? but their case rates are up. well, thats good. isnt -- that means that the vaccine is working? >> that -- that -- thats exactly right. and so, there are many people who say the ...

Degradation of the efficacy of the vaccine, more so than younger people. how long does the booster effect last? thats a big one. are we basically just fortifying the wall really strong for a period of time and then its going to wane regardless? thats going to be something i think the committees going to sort of look at. and then finally, how much do they really reduce transmission? you know, were talking about breakthrough cases. is that really the right metric to be measuring in terms of decidi...

We are talking about breakthrough cases. is that the right metric to be measuring in terms of deciding whether or not to boost? the answer to that last question will help dictate that. >> it was just about a month ago when top health officials from the biden administration laid out the september 20th booster plan. they did it so health departments could plan in advance. since the confusion since then, im not sure whats going on with the health departments. as the former baltimore health commissi...

They are testing positive. they are breakthrough cases. i think its going to be an important piece of data if you are trying to say, look, were going to boost because we want to cut down breakthrough cases, transmission. if you look at the israel data, i think from what im seeing, you would have a hard time making the case there. there may be new data, other data presented at the meeting tomorrow. if you say boosting will ultimately bring down cases, thats not what they have seen in israel so fa...

Vaccines. theyve got about 64% of the country vaccinated. theyve been boosting since august. how do their cases look? what would you think their cases are doing? let me show you. this is what it looks like now throughout the pandemic. and you can see theyre at the highest seven-day average of new coronavirus cases that theyve ever been. and thats despite having a very high vaccination rate and starting to boost. i think -- luckily, their hospitalizations and deaths are low. the vaccines are work...

Under that age who are otherwise healthy. it didnt seem like the data was there. let me show you real quick. when you talk about what was going on in israel, they talked about israeli data quite a bit. if you look at the overall vaccination and case rates, that i are very vaccinated. 64, 65% of the country have been boosting since august. their cases have never been higher throughout this pandemic. so will you use breakthrough cases as the metric by which you boost somebody? not if you look at t...

New things about this virus everyday. >> does the science tell us that booster shots would make breakthrough cases rarer? >> well, the science suggests that in that these very short-term studies do show that it gives a good response in terms of making antibodies both against the original virus but also ones that can help neutralize delta. so, i think that we dont have direct data on protection of boosters. there is some suggestive data from israel, but it makes sense that they would help. as i s...