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Federal health officials havent taken a clear position on whether a high-dose influenza vaccine is the best choice for people 65 and older. Many in that group already opt for the costlier enhanced shot.

Disruption of social services if you have all of the essential workers out of the workforce. the most worrisome are the health care workers, the hospital workers especially because we know hospitalizations are rising in new york. they are rising in new jersey. they are rising in washington, d.c. some of the worst affected areas. so the narrative about this being a mild virus, i think we have to temper that with that reality and the situation in the u.s. may be different. so what everyone is wrin...

Worsened emotional health, and now the chicago teachers union may put the children back in that position again. your take. >> john, actually the governor of illinois pointed to that study and she wants the schools to remain open, and she pointed out that not only is there mental health issues involved, also learning issues are involved. delayed learning has been shown over the pandemic and socialization issues and developmental delay, just on the mental side. physical side, the issue of immuniza...

Usually just cold symptoms, runny nose, clog, congestion and sometimes fever. but it is extremely contagious. and what youre seeing is that the population of children 0 to 5 has no immunizations at all. and between 5 and 16, the immunizations have really just come out. so theres a very low antibody level. and this group is very susceptible to catching covid. so, its mild, but its affecting a lot of people. and when it affects a lot of children, even a small percentage, are going to end up in the...

Rapid testing on the premises. we can make sure that most people they are vaccinated or have boosters and we can monitor this. here is the most important thing. we can monitor this much more closely in a school then we could ever do by letting them go into the community. what do you think happens if you send students, university students certainly are going to spread it in the community when they are at home trying to learn online or public schools are high schools are going to spread it anyway....

Infrastructure, and health care workers being knocked out, thats going to be the tough part of this wave of the pandemic is even though theres fewer hospitalized patients, theres going to be fewer people to take care of them and all the aspects of the social disruption that well see. >> and doctor, lets talk about schools going back on monday. theres a big concern about the recent up tick in pediatric hospitalizations. and it does come as the fda is expected to hopefully approve a booster in the...

They told the advisory committee on immunizations that they were going to cut back on the meetings this years and the decisions would be made internally, not open to public discussion. there are 20,000 employees at the cdc was still cant tell people of basic statistics about things like natural immunity. my father would do a better job in front of congress than tony fauci does. >> jesse: im just glad that our president is devoting time today to this and not leading a deliberate political stunt t...

Taking time off work and going to the doctor. so weve got these great mechanisms through pediatricians and primary care providers to get regular immunizations. i think that is exactly what a shot like this could do if it was a combination. >> all right, 2023 they say. dr. ali raja, harvard medical school. nice to see you this morning. >> thank you, doctor. >> thank you. dr. steven a. smith is back, he said his covid infection nearly killed him. the it attacked his liver, gave him infections in...

Advantage of that? >> yes, i would. >> shannon: ok. i want to read something from another favorite son of louisiana who is known very well, james carville, and i have to bleep a lot of this. he said this last thursday in a podcast, i wish what they would do is pass a law that would make you immune if you punch unvaccinated person in the face. if youre not vaccinated, you dont have any medical reason not to be and youre a piece of blank, ok? i want to punch you in the blank-blank face. thats the ...

Vaccine card but we have no concern about the security of people in the parking lot. >> shannon: i would hope the mayor is working on all of those fronts. thats a lot to manage. you make a good point about the crime issue is one here in d.c. same thing. we would like to see that managed well. a niece nola.com, they talk about the options you have. the head of the new orleans health department says she expects pushback from parents but louisiana law allows for religious or philosophical exemption...