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Infection are able to combat the omicron variant. and why we are likely also contributing to the decreased severity of cases. while t-cell immunity will keep people out of the hospital, essentially turning sars covid two into a cold or mild flu in individuals to really stop a person from getting infected thats when those antibodies of the innate immune system comes in. the reason people get recommending boosters is that decreases your chance of getting infected. it doesnt bring it to zero and it...

My weird little paper cdc card. very odd comparison. one last quick question. boosters, you and i were speaking many times on-air. and you were skeptical about the need for universal boosters. have you changed your mind about that given what were learning about waning immunity from two must have shot vaccines, all the studies suggesting you knee tleed shots to fight off this new omicron variant. >> we do need an additional dose. there are different reasons we give boosters. you have waning immun...

Example, that matters. and not only, that you cant say that i might get omicron and be severe because you cant guarantee that youre going to get omicron and not delta. in hence, i think that the best strategy during the search, we could talk about efficacy, we can talk about biometrics later, but the best part during this acute setting is for all of us to continue to maintain and take advantage of those boosters. >> so one side is that people are going out of the way to say that maybe i could ge...

Weve got cal berkeley law professor john you and immunologist, -- thank you to you both. doctor, lets go to you first. i want to talk about schools and testing. a lot of public health officials now including dr. mcgarry are saying this universal testing for schoolkids is becoming wasteful, that essentially we are using a whole lot of tests, tens of millions of tests, on a low risk population that really could be better serving high-risk populations like the elderly or the immunocompromised. what...

They started with those in that age group who were immunocompromised. is that the next step? israel has often been ahead of the u.s. on its vaccine program. is that whats next for us? >> i dont think we can say thats whats next in the sense that were all looking carefully at how to best use these vaccines. theyre remarkable tools but theyre not perfect. if we end up finding ourselves in a position where we need to basically boost someone every six to seven months, thats going to be a challenge. ...

You have a working term meter. a lot of peep dont. a working thermometer and have a stash of tylenol and ibuprofen on hand. thats what we are going to recommend that you use. and think about the disruption when your child might be quarantined or isolated. we are all trying to work and maintain our lives, they might be isolated. this may happen to one out of three people listening today. >> dr. patel are you aware of any vaccinated kids in the intensive care unit anywhere right now? >> no. i know...

>> reporter: leaving doctors at the university of washingtons harbor view medical center with some tough decisions. >> were using these medications judiciously, and really giving em to the people that would most benefit from these therapeutics. if we open it up to vaccinated individuals, we would not have enough therapy. >> reporter: should a vaccinated person get it, versus an unvaccinated? or should it only be unvaccinated? i mean, it is going to raise all kinds of ethical and medical sort of ...

Therapeutics. if we open it up to vaccinated individuals, we would not have enough therapy. >> should a vaccinated person get it versus an unvaccinated? or only for unvaccinated? its going to raise ethical and medical sort of questions. >> the availability is so limited. and more people who are unvaccinated are going to wind up in need. >> reporter: the national institutes of health guidance prioritizes treatment for those at highest risk. the immunocompromised, the elderly and, yes, the unvacci...

I think its important that we say this information has to stop. it is for the greater good to get vaccinated and its not necessarily about me protecting me, its about me protecting my mom or others in my family who are immunocompromised. that was not the tone that i got from it, i think he was being really realistic. last week at donald trump was interviewed by bill oreilly and former president trumps that he was vaccinated and got the booster and so did bill oreilly. they got booted by their ow...

>> john, im going to borrow a term from the governor of new york. she said there is a glimmer of hope. you never want to get too excited because weve been doing this for two years now, and covid has fooled us over and over again, but there is a glimmer of hope when you see the numbers do what you just described in washington. in new york, youre starting to see a glimmer of that as well. we saw it in south africa. as quickly as it rose up, it also quickly went down. i want to add a note here, tha...