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Thats in the works right now. and we know more parents are hoping to vaccinating their kids than they were a couple of months, ago today somewhere hopefully potentially news, the pharmaceutical company merck just realized, just released the results of a clinical trial, of a pill that its developing for people who are already sick with mild or moderate cases of covid, they say it works, according to, merck their experimental covid pill, reduce the risk of hospitalization or death, in covid patien...

My member of pfizers board of. directors and the author of uncontrolled spread. why covid-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic. we appreciate your time tonight def still, ahead some important developments as the biden justice department takes on texas. stay with us. stay with us i looked on ancestry and just started digging and found some really cool stuff... it was just a lot of fun. just to talk to my parents about it and to send it to my grandparents and be like, hey this per...

Presumption that the high vaccination rates here and high immunity from prior infections going to protect the northeast. i think that is partially true but you think we are still at risk to see cases bump up in the northeast, as well. as the weather gets cold and people move back indoors. >> if fascinating. scott gottlieb, really appreciate it. the title of the new book, uncontrolled spread, why covid-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic. ahead, victory for families of the vic...

Vaccination mandate for school children. newsoms plan requires all elementary through high school get the shots once the vaccine gains final approval from the government for different age groups. get more insight for the pandemic bret baier talks with former food and drug commissioner dr. scott gottlieb. >> bret: tonight we talk to the former head of the fda. dr. scott gottlieb. he is the author of the new book "uncontrolled spread" why covid-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic...

Political debate. >> bret: right, speaking of which the flu vaccine. a lot of the people didnt take the flu vaccine in the past. flu season is coming up. flu cases, historically low. in part the cdc says because of the mitigation efforts and masks and washing hands. but that is a potentially a big deal, right? >> look, if we see declining levels of uptick of the flu vaccine, thats going to be detrimental. we dont know how bad of a flu season we are in for right now. there is some indication ther...

>> you say the durability, meaning how long having infection will protect you against getting covid but some people have gotten second infections. so we dont know how durable it is, correct? >> right. we dont know how durable the vaccines are and obviously, people are getting boosters because the vaccines that the immunity hasnt been that durable, particularly in older people. were seeing rising breakthrough infections. we dont know how durable. it will probably be the case while there is a peri...

Heard. >> okay. now hear the science. >> we have numerous studies from last school year that repeatedly demonstrate that school outbreaks are prevented when we have masking in schools. >> reporter: now briefly back to lebron james decision to get vaccinated. he made it clear hes not now promoting anything. hes not getting involved in anyone elses business. and thats fair enough. hes a basketball player. not an epidemiologist. but, still, his personal decision could influence others to do the sam...

Skeptics with a bit of a show and tell today getting the pfizer booster in public while reminding people who is eligible and who is not as we are seeing long lines in some places back again not all states starting the booster roll out i want to bring in the former fda commission e dr. scott gottlieb, author of the new book "uncontrolled spread: why covid crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic" doctor thank you for joining us. patiently, as we have been dealing with breaking news welc...

We have chicken pox vaccination, flu vaccinations. this isnt just to protect them but their patients. i think the government is well within its right to mandate it. it gets more touchy when youre looking at vaccinations for smaller dids. i dont think the government should be looking at it. its going to turn something thats been a politically furtive debate to literally having politicians running against these map dates. that could be corrosive to have people voluntarily seek out vaccinations nas...

And down. on a political question, i think the biggest failing of the administration in my view was a lack of consistency in terms of how they approached the pandemic. i think there was a view that took hold over time that uncontrolled spread was inevitable and we couldnt intervene with policy to mitigate the spread, so policy really wasnt a solution. i think that was wrong. i think there were things we could do, if we could galvanize the public behind action to slow the spread, buy us more time...