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Part, you know, were still waiting for that laboratory data, but the reason you see myself and many other infectious disease docs and immunologists say we are going to be protected against infectious or severe diseases because no other variant has completely reduced or eradicated the protection against severe disease and death, and thats why those vaccines are so important, and the boosters from what we know now, these boosters are increasing not just your antibodies but more and more studies ar...

Because the cases are increasing in south africa. you are seeing clusters of cases where tons of people have become infected from a primary index person who has omicron. i would say, for the booster part, we are still waiting on that laboratory data. but the reason you see myself and many other infectious disease doctors an immunologist say with more confidence that we are probably going to be protected against infection for severe diseases because no other variant today brian, has reduced compl...

Unknown. well get the laboratory data in a couple of weeks, but well have to get the experience from our south african colleagues about what the real clinical effect is going to be. >> dr. fauci, good evening. you just heard kaitlan collins report talking about the fact that the president is going to be laying out a strategy on how to fight covid this winter. now, as his chief medical adviser, im curious what are you telling him the most important thing to stress is to the country and what, if a...

From people who have recovered from covid as well as individuals who have been vaccinated and who have developed different types of antibodies to block the virus, and well see if, in fact, this particular virus is still sensitive to the antibodies that were induced by the vaccines that were using. we expect -- and i wouldnt be surprised -- if the level of protection diminishes somewhat given the p constellations of mutations that we would see that would suggest immune evasion there. you never kn...

Milder disease. and you said we just dont have enough data at this point. >> this is pretty hard to answer, and when we look at the previous variants, the early answers end up being wrong. i would love it if this caused a milder disease, i just havent seen anything one way or the other, so i think the jury is out on this question. >> the third question is will it render us immune from other variants and are vaccines less effective? >> lets be clear on what we think is likely and unlikely. i thin...

Delta variant and youre looking at different age groups, 18 to 55 and 65 to 85. just concentrate for a moment on the blue. one month after dose two the titer was 241. it went up dramatically after dose three to 1,321. if one looks at the 65 to 85 it wept from 123 to 1479. thats laboratory data. lets look at clinical data. this is a study recently published in the "new england journal of medicine." in israel people aged 60 years or older who received a second dose of mrna at least five months ear...

So, therefore, which populations would benefit from an additional dose? >> so people that are over 65 are recommended to get a booster shot starting soon, i think, and thats going to be available. i guess i didnt quite understand as i was tracking this the source. it seemed like there was an intense controversy and a fight happening inside the government, right? youve got two fda people who even resigned over it when joe biden came out in august saying this is going to be our plan. i guess i jus...

Looking at here. its a small study. they basically are measuring antibody levels. so, this is a laboratory study. so theyre basically in the lab saying, okay, when we expose to this virus with this vaccine, how much antibodies do we get? how much do we get if we give a booster six months later. the antibodies increase nine fold compared to where they were 28 days after the first shot. so, thats a pretty significant increase. and i think its probably going to be enough for johnson & johnson if th...

Finally, come down, people on the other side of it that havent been infected say, oh, well, i -- i missed it. im not going to get it. i made it through. you know, you cant run out the clock on this one. eventually, as was in your lead, this virus will find you. it is that infectious. so if its not this surge, itll be the next surge. and i think that thats an important message is that dont try to run out the clock. it wont happen. please, get vaccinated. >> dr. hotez, we got a lot of viewer quest...

Dont have perfect evidence. among the things i would like the cdc to come out with is how many people in the hospital who have died had covid beforehand. thats a really important bit of information. but based on the laboratory data and looking at people over time, i would be very concerned that natural immunity, particularly against delta, wanes. remember, we have to get vaccinated against flu every year not because our immunity is so bad, but because the virus changes. and delta is a whole new ...