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Explanation and it indicates the president is doing other work before he goes and gives these remarks in the east room. i just want to point that out because its a little bit unusual. you wouldnt see the president and the covid response team speaking at the same time and its possible well have overlap here in the next 30 do 45 minutes and back to the covid briefing, there are also a lot of questions about these booster shots. earlier today dr. anthony fauci on the "today" show expects that every...

Assignment this week. back home in washington, monica alba at the white house. john torres is joining us, along with former obama administration about a third dose. what do we know about why now, why this decision is being made today and how urgent its going to be to get the people who are eligible that third shot. >> hallie, youre right. theres a lot of news coming out about covid vaccines in particular, amend the authorization for pfizer and moderna to authorize a third dose for those who are ...

Because of this that were getting and because of new data, this updated medical guidance. lets start with the booster shots for the immunocompromise and dr. fauci saying booster shots probably for everyone soon. why is that important now? >> so it is important now because we see our positivity rates going up, we see the hospitalizations and the icu and the burden on our health care system. we see children at rates that we had not previously seen before. and we see the after-effects with this lon...

Expected to authorize vaccine booster shots for people who are immunocompromised. dr. fauci today making clear boosters are likely forern down the road a bill. >> no vaccine at least not within this category is going to have an indefinite amount of protection. inevitably there will be i time when we have to give boosts. but at this point wire examining the data and they dont feel that we absolutely have to get it except for the immune compromised who we know theyre going to get the immint approv...

Across state of the texas. thank you. another big development and if your vaccinated this could apply to you. fda authorization of a third covid shot specifically for immunocompromised people could come in the next 48 hours. lets bring in dr. jorge rodriguez, specialist and viral researcher. first your reaction to the step the fda is about to take? >> well i think it is a very necessary step. i think there is compounding information that still has to be analyzed that shows that these vaccines,...

Antibody response to the vaccines in the first place. so third shot was a term you use, and thats probably the right term, its not so much a booster as a third shot. let me show you a study they paid attention to. the left bar basically that red is what happened the antibodies they got after their first series of shots. they didnt generate a lot of antibodies. but look how much that improved after they got that third shot. they got a lot of neutralizing antibodies. the placebo with the blue. tha...

They have fundamentally changed the game that were playing. from my perspective, right now, its all about the variant. its about what delta is doing, would it will continue to do and what we can do about it. >> i know of your concerns to get the rest of the world vaccinated, and i think all good hearted americans agree with you, but, are all american is headed for a third shot sooner rather than later? not just the immunocompromised? >> one of the things we have to remember here, as we talk abou...

The former group of conditions are called immunodeficiencies. These can exist from birth as a result of genetic alterations, though they are very rare. They can also be acquired later in life through many different causes. These include malnutrition, obesity, diabetes and HIV infection. Immunocompromised: How Will COVID-19 Vaccines Work on Compromised Immune Systems? Heres What We Know.

In fact, theres every reason not to." theres certainly, though, millions of americans who cannot be vaccinated. were talking about immunocompromised or children under the age of 12. shouldnt a society like ours do what they can to protect those who are defenseless? >> yes. we should. and i certainly think we should vaccinate each other and be vaccinated. but the risk is really very small to children. if youre 18 times more likely to drown if youre age 1 to 5 than to die of covid. i think putting...

For and protect those who are immunocompromised. and this includes those who may be under treatment for cancer and be receiving immunocompromising drugs. it could include those who are organ transplant recipients and may be on medications that suppress the immune response. so weve been concerned about these individuals. weve been following them closely. and i think most of us believe that weve got to do more to protect these individuals. so the fda has been working hard to basically do the evalu...