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As health care personnel and also frontline workers, and i think there will be robust discussions among the members of the acip in that regard. >> okay. and if its the collecting of data and science that will determine when and if a third, you know, booster shot should be extended, you know, to everyone. what is your point of view on when the white house gets ahead of that and sets dates perhaps raising expectations for people only to be disappointed when the fda and/or cdc are in disagreement o...

♪ >> bret: there are growing questions tonight about president bidens vaccine policy and whether he is ignoring medical advice about booster shots. we will know more tomorrow after an fda meeting. tonight, white house correspondent peter doocy looks at whats at stake for president biden. days after several afghans were killed clinging to a cargo plane president biden tried to change the subject back to covid. >> theres a simple rule -- rule. 8 months after your second shot, get a booster shot....

In the driver, seat at the fda. second, the actual application, from pfizer, my understanding, is its 100,000 pages long. you cant read that. and come up with a detailed analysis, of all the issues that you want to raise. if youre one of the scientific, unpaid, scientific advisers that are supposed to tell the fda esther no. you cant read 100 the awesome pages in a few days. and then right behind, them comes moderna, theyre going to have another hundred thousand pages, and so on. this is a huge ...

Innovation, the acip has done a pretty darned good job so far, but this is over the top, where we are now. and the obvious next question everybodys going to ask. first you said five months, then eight months, then you said six months, how many months after second dose? then said everybody, then you roll it back to just pfizer recipients. so what do the moderna and johnson & johnson recipients supposed to do? so confusing. on top of everything else, we all know people well connected, well finance...

Persons, those living in nursing homes, can wait a very long period of time before they get the next vaccine. probably the longer you wait, the better it is. certainly dont get a booster before six months. eight months, maybe even longer than that. >> and for the people who are immunocompromised or older people, do you think that september 20th that they will be able to see a pfizer booster shot? >> well, i dont want to put a date because, again, i want the fda and i want the cdc to make a recom...

A lot of people in the u.s. thought we would get it after six months. >> good question. the plan for the roll out was at the september 20th, the week of september 20th. that would actually be about eight months from the time, the very first people in this country got their vaccinations in january. thats the issue. we said and we continue to abide by it that the ultimate implementation of that would be according to regulatory aspect of the fda and the recommendations of the acip. although the pla...

Merazzo, from the university of alabama birmingham. do you understand what the disconnect is? >> i wish i understood all of the details, but my take is this. we heard two and a half weeks ago from the white house in a very staged announcement, right? it was almost very theatrical that booster shots were going to be rolled out starting september 20th. and many people were rather surprised by that, including myself. first of all, because we really havent seen all the data either from the pfizer va...

Appear that way. what were doing -- what the white house has done is saying we want to be prepared for a rollout but the system of making sure that we get the fda approval and the recommendation from the advisory committee and immunization practices to the cdc, theyre not superseding that at all. they are preparing for the likelihood that we will be giving boosters to individuals and logistically well be starting it on the week of september the 20th. it will all depend on the proper approval by ...

Four weeks apart because we were in crisis, we were losing 3,000 american lives a day, we had to get everybody fully vaccinated. but when you do that kind of schedule, it almost guarantees that you will have waning immunity at some point. and thats the reason why it became a three-dose vaccine. the other piece, though, is we havent seen whether were really seeing breakthrough hospitalizations. yet we are seeing a lot of breakthrough infections, efficacys declining from over 90% to 40 to 50%. do ...

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