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Will soon be in short supply. they will need to be rationed. >> challenging. >> reporter: leaving doctors like this at harvards medical center with some tough decisions. >> were using these medications judiciously and really giving them 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? only for unvaccinated? raising all kinds of ethical...

U.s. population who are deemed high risk, that includes anyone, for example, who is pregnant, diabetic, immunocompromised. the list goes on and on. does that guidance make sense to you? >> wolf, the cdc is in a challenging position because theres so many people infected right now, and a vast majority of them are not isolating at all. so cdc is trying to find guidance that people will do that will reduce transmission. i think five days is when people are most contagious, so thats critical. beyond...

Immunocompromised. people who have not been able to have reactions to a vaccine they would need to. people with kids under the age of five who know that life looks a whole lot similar at the very start of this pandemic in some ways. the recent "new york times" says i see signs of despair from parents of kids undertive that shows how thinly stretched parents are. some of the word, devastating, disgusting and at a breaking point. and its more than just the rising case kouns. right? parents of youn...

Are there going forward. it cant be that way. its got be easy to access, continuous supply. weve got to have the right communication, give people access to different versions of it so they can try whats comfortable for them. its still going to matter. omicron, were still having 800,000 new cases. we still have a long way to go, even if were starting to turn the tide. theres going to be many, many days where we have ton of infection. a lot of people say, okay, what if youre vaccinated. vaccinatio...

Four doses and youre done. it may be that there are some individuals who are particular immunocompromised or otherwise vulnerable who need to have annual shots and other people dont or maybe we need to get annual boosters. we dont know. what we do know is people who are six months out from pfizer or moderna or two months out from the initial johnson & johnson dose, they have to get boosted right now. this is not something thats a nice to have. getting boosted will reduce your chance of severe il...

>> sandra: they will tell you what they told shannon about the relationship on the bench. and immunocompromised. say it three times fast next time. >> john: got it. im john roberts in washington. big afternoon, sandra, we have shannon breams new reporting after the news that is breaking right now. stay with us. fox news alert, and less than two hours until president biden will take questions from reporters, a rare news conference to mark his first full year in office. >> sandra: a year ago he wa...

Thats been made more acute. i think your team actually has a projection that i would like to show your viewers. its on where you can get therapeutic medications if youre higher risk, immunocompromised, where you can get them at your zip code. go to this website, healthdata.gov. you can search for the pfizer oral anti-viral pill, for the monoclonal antibody, for pre-exposure prophylactic. were trying to keep as many people out of the hospital as possible. this is how we do it. >> so this is key, ...

Population of kids were focusing on. we have kids with serious health conditions, we have kids who are immunocompromised. we have kids who live with adults who are either one of those things so were not focused on the entire population of kids, were focused on making sure every kid stays healthy and safe. >> your state has banned a parent from putting a mask on their child. you can still put a mask on your child and protect them that way. we used to think the mask was protecting other people. no...

For healthcare workers who are in sustained contact with immunocompromised patients and patients with covid-19 and people who are immunocompromised. they would benefit. the average healthy american and everyday settings should not be wearing these. you are really only supposed to wear them one interaction at a time with covid because there have been supply chain issues physicians, nurses have been having to reuse our masks. i can tell you, dana, the moment you move your mask and adjust it or tak...

To kacatch up. but the bottom line is that if you are fully vaccinated and you have not yet gotten your booster youre going to be more at risk of getting this virus. if you have this virus, you have the opportunity to -- you could get very sick from it. we still dont understand long covid. but more importantly, you can still pass it on to other people, and theres still a lot of very vulnerable people including people who are immunocompromised, dont mount the kind of of immune response we like to...