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The centers for disease control and prevention and get their timely advice. but then the government officials really have to look across the entire landscape and weigh the benefits versus risks. and in this case director walensky looked at health care workers, looked at teachers and said, you know, theyre our frontline workers so we feel the risks are so important that we need to offer them the benefit of the third shot. so it was a measured approach and it happens. its sometimes rare but in thi...

Challenge him with millions of dollars in that primary so he is a big winner of the week for me. loser of the week united nations got little coverage and its really just a joke. something for dictators to go to new york city and go shopping. >> bret: harold winner or loser. >> winner are first responders and frontline workers who constantly go into untold danger whether it be grocery stores or covering and trying to help covid patients. thank god for them. their courage and commitment should be ...

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Over 65. we dont know yet whether the vice president will receive a booster shot, but i would think she would apply or that she would come in the category of frontline workers it into told that shot. >> one thing this shows is the importance of regular testing, easily available testing with rapid result testing, because that is what were seeing play out right here. jeremy, we know the vice president, one of the things that the vice president was going to face was likely some very tough questioni...

Specific point but a significant one, healthcare workers, frontline workers that could be define understand a lot of ways. to break with your advisers and make this announcement just after midnight, i guess, this morning? >> indeed. um, first, i just want to come back and say i have this exceptional group of scientific advisers. and there were four votes yesterday and there was real enthusiasm. in fact, unanimity for some of the votes to recommend boosters for people who are at high risk, people...

Ethnic minority communities. many of our frontline workers, essential workers and those in congregate settings come from communities already hardest hit. withholding access to boosters from them would worsen the inequities i have said i would fight. we said we would follow the regulatory and scientific processes. and over the last month we have done exactly that. scientists at fda, cdc and across the country and the world have pored over the data. for those greater than 65, those at high risk fo...

Covid like those living in long-term care facilities or frontline workers like doctors and teachers. that last bullet at center of an unusual move by the cdc director. dr. walensky right now holding a covid briefing defending her decision to go against an advisory panels controversial vote to not include frontline workers in its booster recommendation. president biden this morning backed the cdc directors decision and urged americans who can to go get boosted now. lets get right to the white hou...

Ongoing, raging pandemic just as many americans are hoping to return to school and work safely. the threat of breakthrough covid cases in indoor settings, despite the growing number of vaccinations, is obviously very real. it all comes as cdc chief rochelle walensky decided late last night to break with the agencys panel and approve booster shots for frontline workers if theyve received the pfizer vaccine. lets bring in dr. kavita patel. theres something i want to understand. president biden ann...

Immunocompromised and you went beyond that and said frontline workers fall into that and expanded by millions of people. take a listen to fda and then admiral brett giroir about. this very clear populations that have impaired or diminished good cell ryu larr responses and a boost may be very appropriate for them. its not clear to me that the data we are seeing right now is applicable and necessary to the general population. >> the person that ignores data is the one that is surprised. we are not...

Between allow and recommend. they could say, for example, they would recommend that the initial people to get the boosters are people over the age of 65. or healthcare workers or certain frontline workers, but then they should say that they can allow boosters for people who consider themselves to be high risk. i just worry that the cdc is going to be too prescriptive. who is to say that lets say a 28-year-old who has renal disease and heart disease and maybe a teacher working in a school where k...