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Doctor, whats your reaction to these decisions from cdc vaccine advisers? >> i think they were the right decisions. basically what theyre saying is if youre over 65, you benefit from a booster dose. if youre between 15 and 64 and have a medical condition with high risk of severe covid then you too likely benefit from a booster dose. for the most part young healthy people are protected against severe disease. whats been amazing about these vaccines, whether its moderna, pfizer or johnson & johnso...

Booster of one of the mrna vaccines, pfizer or moderna, which seem to be more effective? >> well, youre right in that certainly if you boosted with an mrna vaccine on top of johnson & johnson and introduced a greater antibody response than j&j vaccine. but j&j did a 30,000 person trial of the two dose vaccine and it was 94% effective against all manner of illness and greater than that against severe disease so both work. both the johnson & johnson boost or mrna boost. >> and the johnson & johnso...

To get the so-called reconciliation package passed through the senate, would you at least go ahead and immediately pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package which passed the senate with 19 republican senators and all 50 democratic senators? >> wolf, the president has been very clear. the speaker has been clear. they need to pass together. the reason is that the house had absolutely no say in that infrastructure bill so a lot of our provisions on climate are in the reconciliation. im confiden...

Kristen light presented data from the university of maryland with 50 people in each group. basically what she foundi is everything cost. if you got johnson & johnson and boosted with moderna or pfizer, that worked. so to make it easier for people, you can be boosted with anything if youre in those two groups i just told you about and it is likely to boost your immune response. what we need to decide we want out of this vaccine is what is the goal. if its protection against severe disease, weve m...