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>> you say the durability, meaning how long having infection will protect you against getting covid but some people have gotten second infections. so we dont know how durable it is, correct? >> right. we dont know how durable the vaccines are and obviously, people are getting boosters because the vaccines that the immunity hasnt been that durable, particularly in older people. were seeing rising breakthrough infections. we dont know how durable. it will probably be the case while there is a peri...

Durability and depth around the country. if you had told me this time last year that 55, 60% of republicans would believe a self-evident lie about the election, i would have thought you were exaggerating. and so i think that you have polarization and as you say, its a great word it is nihilism it is nihilism >> when historians tell you we are at a moment of grave danger, best the pay attention, as we did tonight. with great thanks to our starting line on this monday evening. phillip rucker, lisa...

Will be clear that booster shots or the third shot, when you get the mrna first and second dose, the third shot, they ultimately turn out to be the standard regimen that well use. when he said -- when the cdc director said walk dont run, it means that you are still pretty well protected. in fact, quite well protected in many categories. were talking about the need for a booster about the durability of the effect because data from the united states and a lot of data from israel shows whats called...

Human connection. thats where you are talking about really low caves fatality rate and real harm to kids with the mask. brian: dr. makary real quick over the weekend dr. fauci was finally asked a tough question what about people with natural immunity who have it and beat it and have the antibodies he said well, thats something to think about. but we just dont know the durability of the antibodies. why dont we? we have people that beat the virus. moth most people beat the virus. most people get t...

>> its not accurate. we have more data on natural immunity than we do unvaccinated immunity. it all depends on how you phrase the hypothesis. you can see the same thing about vaccinated immunity. you can say we dont know the durability of it. the reality is we have 19 months of good observational data, 15 studies. its not small signal in the data. its 27 times more effective than vaccinated immunity in the largest study ever performed. its going to be embarrassing to ignore natural immunity as t...

Thats up to the governors as it always has been since the beginning of the pandemic. >> shannon: we have one top executive at united saying we dont think its great but well supported if the white house does it. a lot of federal funding bailing out those flights. this other statement from dr. fauci. now theres more of a conversation about natural immunity and whether those people whoever covered need to also get the vaccine. heres part of his conversation on that. >> the one thing that we are not...

Just here at the u.n. general assembly but also later at the white house when he continues to host world leaders. you have his decision to end the u.s. involvement in afghanistan that brought about that hasty evacuation, some allies were frustrate bd that, there were questions about the durability of the u.s. commitment. theres that spat with the french that you talked about, they feel left out of the national security arrangement among the u.s., the uk and australia, but to your larger point, s...

>> you have said -- certainly theres the medical proof, scientific proof that, if youve gotten covid, you get some natural immunities. do we have good studies that indicate how long those natural immunities last? >> not yet, chuck, we dont. were following that, but not yet. we do know that when you do get infected, you get strong immunity. theres no doubt about that. the durability is unclear. theres another fact we know that, if you do get infected and recover and get vaccinated, the level of y...

Process as we go on in the next several weeks to months. >> youve said there are indications that the vaccines lose effectiveness over time. you still believe that at some point the general public will need booster shots, just the fda advisory committee is not there yet? >> jake, what i believe, and, again, this is my opinion as a scientist and a public health person, that it is entirely conceivable, and maybe likely, that ultimately when we look back on this, the proper regimen for protection, ...

Protections. i understand that vaccination offers stronger protections, but whats your answer when people say why does bidens new federal vaccine mandate have to apply to people that have had covid given that they have some protection already? >> yeah, it is true, they do have protection. the one thing that we are not aware of yet, and hopefully well get that data, is what the durability of protection is. and looking ahead, whether or not that type of a protection thats induced by natural infect...