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Of effectiveness of the vaccine? >> it would foreshore. the mutations that are rising that have now led to delta and will inevitably lead to further variance down the road, are certainly giving the virus a leg up to both transmit more readily but also appear to be giving it an ability to start to chip away at our immune protection and enable to infect individuals a bit easier. so if we were still dealing with version one of this virus, for example, that really matched the vaccine as well. wherea...

Untested and unpopular, she was a woman of color that trumped confidence, personality, effectiveness, so now what? i think about the democratic party, they thought they had a quarterback starting quarterbac in a backup quarterback, they had neither. they got lemons. and still she is closer to the presidency than ever because yo know, joe doesnt look that great. in she is keeping her distance from the afghan thing. its like a stick, anybody that touches it get on them. and i was going to use a co...

And we keep seeing in polls that it is really important to the vaccine hesitant, especially when it comes to their kids. and now, you have boosters that you cant get until the fda approves the underlying drug. whats your take? >> well, chris, i think that approval, at least for the pfizer vaccine, is going to come very soon. probably, by the end of the month or right around there. and this is a process, chris, thats designed for when we are not in a public-health emergency. so the vaccine thats ...

Retaliate, that should not be. they are the heart of this economy and major restaurants tell me since this policy kicked in half of the reservations have been canceled. group of business leaders met to discuss a lawsuit against the city and the state, and there was a march organized by protesters over the mandate but whether it will have any effect who knows? laura: independent restaurants in new york file lawsuits, people want fairness. thanks. new findings from oxford university cast out on th...

Trials done. there have been follow-up of hundreds of millions of people who have gotten the vaccines. so, we know a lot about the safety and effectiveness. what the full approval does is gives fda chance to dot the is, cross the ts, and look at things that just dont matter like is the vaccine going to be stable in a freezer for a year or something like that. what we will know is that people will know that fda has gone this extra mile. the agency is trying not to cut corners on it, but its still...

How protected vaccinated people are. i, for example, have never stopped wearing masks indoors, at stores. i now know that in november ill eight months away from my second shot of moderna. so the effectiveness of this vaccine is kind of on a downward slope during that period of time, apparently. thats my understanding of the science. so what should vaccinated people be doing in protecting themselves as we head toward our third shot, our booster shot? >> thats a great question. vaccinated people r...

Vaccine or infection, waning is an expected outcome. >> if we were not developing, lets go to a hypothetical universe. were not developing new variants and the vaccine was still fighting the same old variant it began fighting in say, february box that have anything to do with the length of effectiveness of the vaccine? >> it would for sure. the mutations that are rising that have now led to delta and will inevitably lead the further variants down the road are certainly giving the virus a leg up ...

Infected. alabama, the state with the lowest vaccination rate, has run out of icu beds due to the surge in coronavirus infections in the state. the alabama hospital association said there were 29 people in the state on wednesday being forced to wait in emergency rooms for an open icu bed. the mississippi department of health says theres only seven icu beds available in the state and 96 patients need them. yesterday the biden administration announced continued effectiveness of the vaccines will n...

The ‘Wizard of Oz’ of the anti-masker crowd

A large UK study shows that two doses of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines provide good protection against symptomatic infections by the delta coronavirus variant, but not as good as against older variants