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Vaccineses that we have, all three are safe, are effective and theyre preventing more severe illness, possibly death. its one of those things, whats the risk, whats the benefit? the risk is very high with getting in contact with being exposed of getting covid and suffering the consequences of that. things like that. we now have a preventible tool, a covid-19 vaccine that can help prevent all of that suffering that you potentially will go through. a, its good that things are changing. and then, b...

So, therefore, which populations would benefit from an additional dose? >> so people that are over 65 are recommended to get a booster shot starting soon, i think, and thats going to be available. i guess i didnt quite understand as i was tracking this the source. it seemed like there was an intense controversy and a fight happening inside the government, right? youve got two fda people who even resigned over it when joe biden came out in august saying this is going to be our plan. i guess i jus...

Remains for those countries where there are high levels of variants of consent or high levels of transmission. there is a thought to simplify it because the way it is operating for the summer season and spring has caused a lot of worry for consumers and travellers. you will remember when portugalflipped consumers and travellers. you will remember when portugal flipped very quickly, mexico again, people almost caught on the hop desperately trying to get back quickly. that is really damaged consum...

Vulnerable not only to recurrence but infections and all the rest, elderly, et cetera. but not the general population. doctor, so good to have you here with us. i called it like a split decision, doctor. how do you see it and how do you tell your patients about it? >> well, i mean, im an epidemiologist. look at the decisions made by the fda, its a couple things. as you mentioned, you know, the recommendations for a third dose or a booster shot, those age 16 and over is not recommended at this ti...

Biden policy seems to be, we tried convincing as a country, right? showing all available data, making it widely available, free, all that kind of stuff. that hasnt worked. so now as a last resort, we have to start mandating it. i wonder, based on your experience, given all those conversations, is that true? do you agree now, listen, time for argument is over? lets start requiring? >> yes. its been kind of frustrating from a medical provider standpoint. and we always have encouraged people to ask...

Occupational health and safety administration known as osha. they are to be the workhorse of crafting the language behind the mandates and figuring out how to enforce them. as of today, the white house has provided very few detail on the approach of either of those things. joining me to break down the potential of those things is the man who ran osha for several years david michaels who is also a epidemiologist, so doc, we know the parameters that the white house laid out, so what now? how does ...

Vaccines would be available for younger kids in the coming months. joining me to discuss all of this dr. celine gounder, infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist. welcome as always. lets head out west and how theyre doing in los angeles. school officials are requiring children 12 and older to get vaccinated by end of this year. how important a move is this? what would you tell parents who may be hearing this and seem somewhat reluctant to have their child vaccinated? >> alex, look, th...

Use of the horse deworming medication ivermectin, they pleaded people to stop using it because its easy to od open it and make yourself very ill. this is how the local npr station in boise headlined their article. the central health district, quote, they call covid-19 vaccine needle rape as he did, in fact, call it that. he was officially amoved to the idaho health board this week. he had competition. an ep people deemologist was up for the spot -- epidemiologist was up for the spot. they went f...

Testing which is why some companies have been using at-home tests for months. singapore officials said rapid home test kits will be given to all households as well as staff at preschools. michael mina is an epidemiologist, a professor at harvard school of public health. hes been banging his head on this for months, tweeting, a goal of a rapid test program is to keep nine out of ten infectious people from walking into a train station and infecting others. dr. michael mina joins me now. dr. mina, ...

Americans have finally exhausted by all the restrictions in their daily lives. there is a consensus bottom line about the biggest question, pandemics do end, sort of, some of the nations most prominent epidemiologist, and public health experts say we are already there. for different reasons. turning our, coverage laurie garrett, pulitzer prize-winning journalist. in an msnbc science contributor, what do you make of that analysis? in all of this sort of crystal ball gazing, about whether delta ha...