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Afterwards. so all of this was sort of predicted and predictable and based on the urgency at the time. a lot of us were expecting a booster. when you look at the data and coming out of israel and mayo clinic study, there is a sharp decline in effectiveness against infection going from over 90% to 40% to 50%. the unknown that i havent seen a lot of data in is the hospitalizations. so we know were seeing breakthrough cases. but whether were seeing breakthrough hospitalizations, theres a little bit...

Increasingly clear. solid studies demonstrating people who are fully vaccinated as compared to people who were naturally infected have the same rates of subsequent infection. the breakthrough cases are emerging. with respect to my son, he did acquire covid from the university of chicago campus last november. we assessed his level of immunity several times. he is very robustly immune to several protein entities on the iris putting the spike protein. at a level very much comparable to vaccinated p...

>> vaccine protection does gradually wane over time. the israeli data, the people who got immunized in january, are the ones that are now having more breakthrough cases. thats the same thing were starting to see in the u.s. data. >> reporter: david pressing dr. fauci last week on what the israelis are seeing in their data. and why theyre ahead of us in recommending a third shot. >> it would seem the israelis, though, are ahead of us on this, just today approving booster shots for 50 and older st...

Shots? >> wolf, what i will be looking for is a sign that the vaccines are losing some of their effectiveness against hospitalization. there have been signals of breakthrough cases. to date there hadnt been data in the united states showing that people fully vaccinated were at increased risk for hospitalization or severe infection. if thats what theyre seeing in the united states, that would be grounds, i think, for recommending boosters here, while at the same doing a lot more than we can. >> s...

The globe and while there are signals of breakthrough cases or asymptomatic cases, there hasnt been for severe infections. what i would expect to see, again, is a staged movement towards giving people a booster shot with those going first to those who got vaccines first, those at greatest risk so elderly, those in nursing homes, front line health care wores and then likely moving on to other people but it will be very important that the data are shared so everyone can take a look and make a deci...

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Back to february 8th of 2020. they also report the city of houston reports 3464 cases since january. a couple of very different numbers. it can be confusing to a lot of people. i know that one of the things we have been hearing is look, this is still a very small percentage. how important is it, do you think, doctor were facebook us to have a handle on the breakthrough cases and that theyre properly recorded and understood? >> thats one of the things i spoke to about the affiliate. i said we don...

The vaccines aren’t 100% effective, but they are a significant barrier against severe illness from Covid-19.

Effective and thats the good news, in fact, if you look at the break down of cases, still almost overwhelmingly these cases are in the unvaccinated people. the number one thing that we have to do is those folks vaccinated but as you said, maria, theres breakthrough could start to happen with the vaccine and delta poses a substantial threat to all of the vaccines and the durability of the immunity. maria: what do you make of breakthrough cases. anecdotally i have a few friends who have been vacci...

We are still trying to build data on how much natural immunity protects you just like with the vaccine. we know that when we measure the level of people who have been infected it is lawer than certainly moderna vaccine or pfizer vaccine which would suggest that breakthrough cases are going to happen with natural immunity at least as soon as or sooner than with vaccines. maria: this is -- this is fascinating and, of course, i know that we are learning more about this as we live it. but youre sayi...