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Against infection may decrease over time, protection against severe disease and hospitalization is currently holding up pretty well. as we make decisions about boosters though, we also have to look at vaccine effectiveness in the specific context of the delta variant. preliminary data through august 6th from two of our vaccine effectiveness cohort studies that include more than 4,000 health care personnel, first responders and other frontline workers in eight locations across the country show wa...

And everybody over the age of 12 has to be vaccinated. thats the only way. otherwise the whole thing is going to fall apart. and you know what, i can prove it. its already starting to happen. >> sanjay, i know you spoke about the announcement about booster shots. what have you learned? >> ive learned that this is not a slam dunk. theres a lot of back and forth here. you learned just last week from the cdc the data they were talking about last week and ive talked to some of these officials last w...

Recommendations for a third dose for those americans who have received the pfizer or moderna vaccines. booster shots given eight months after the second dose correcting an earlier report in which i said eight weeks. it will be eight months. the recommendation comes amid growing data the vaccines lose effectiveness over time against mild to moderate covid infections and their concern is that over an even longer period of time the vaccines may offer reduced protection against severe disease especi...

Ultimately protect the country and save the most lives. >> next question. >> all right. weve been listening to this important announcement from the white house coronavirus response team about boosters, and theyre now recommended after your second months -- eight months after your second shot. a lot to get through. theres a lot of information that was just offered up. back with me, cnns sanjay gupta as well as dr. peter hotez, professor from baylor medical college and dr. mardi from florida inter...

Embargoed until 11:00 today. many people will see this data for the first time, including many federal health officials. ive been talking to people over the past several days, some of whom, jim, told me they did not anticipate boosters being needed. i think theyre going to be seeing this data for the first time saw l time along with the rest of the country. three separate data sets, all u.s.-based data sets. i bring that up because what we have been largely looking at until today was internation...

The recommendation that theyre making is that individuals begin getting that booster shot starting on the eight months from their most recent. the second dose of the vaccine. for those that got the johnson and johnson vaccine, there are questions about what that means for them. because it went online several months later, theyre still in the process of recommending a second johnson and johnson shot. there is a third booster shot and when and when the data shows the second johnson and johnson sho...

Older. they would be eligible for their booster shot eight months after receiving their second dose of the pfizer or moderna mrna vaccines. we plan to start this program the week of september 20th, 2021. i want to be very clear. this plan is pending the fda conducting an independent evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of the third dose of the pfizer and moderna mrna vaccines. and the cdcs advisory committee on immunization practices issuing booster dose recommendations based on a thorough...

Long it takes for people to go out and get a shot. maybe theyre trying to see -- i dont know. they can see the danger ahead. theyre trying to meet it there with these booster shots and rolling it out. i thought it was interesting exactly what you pointed to when they said they wanted to stay ahead of it. we had a graphic of what they showed that probably best sums up the decrease in the vaccine effectiveness that is leading them to this conclusion, right? prior to delta, you see 92% effectivenes...

Be looking at the same data. heres the difference. what the united states is basically saying is that we recognize that the data shows that the vaccine still remains very protective against hospitalization and death, but because its less effective against mild or moderate disease, the concern is over the next couple of months it may also start to wane in effectiveness against hospitalization and death. so its sort of trying to anticipate here. that hasnt really happened yet. were not seeing a si...

And family with that situation. they are waiting for johnson & johnson to submit what looked like the two-dose data and a second johnson & johnson dose and call it a booster, but it is not clear. they are waiting for that data, and 13 million people, and many people, i will tell you, geoff, they are seeking outside of kind of the recommendations officially from the government and seeking out boosters and going to the pharmacies and they are telling people that they want to get the mrna vaccine, ...