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And research that shows they're not as effective as perhaps first thought. what is your concern about people developing long covid each time they get infected? how much does that raise the risk? >> the good news, these vaccines continue to be effective in protection against serious illness. i had several doses of the vaccine and then i had a mild two-day infection. it was no fun, but it wasn't a serious infection. these vaccines are continuing to do what they're supposed to do. these are more evasive for protection against mild disease. right now until a strain raises its head that's resistant...

For free across the country is clearly superior based on all the data we have than the original vaccine and it is also much better at dealing with the variants circulating right now. >> is he wrong? >> so there were two papers published in this week's journal of medicine that did the study the right way. they looked at people who got boosted with the monovalent vaccine and compared them to people that got the bivalent vaccine. the answer in both of these studies was no. the good news is this vaccine is no worse than the monovalent vaccine. it's certainly for high risk groups like elderly, peop...

Pe person, to not get the bivalent booster? >> there was a study that i think answered this question the best. they found that if you're young and healthy, meaning less than 65 years of age, don't have comorbidities and aren't immune compromised, a vaccine probably will give you protection against disease for a while. >> i have all three and then i got covid for a second time and it hit me really hard. i'm like, wait a second, i got vaccinate three times and it's hitting me this hard. that brings me to my next question, because these variants seem to be rapidly evolving. it's hard for these va...

In the first real-world test of vaccine boosters specially designed to protect against the omicron variant, Israeli researchers have found that people 65 and over who got an updated jab

Americans. the bivalent is clearly superior and is better at dealing with variants circulating right now. >> i'm encouraged to hear that. you can imagine, dr. jha, how this gives fodder to the vaccine s skeptics who say they're not fully transparent. they just tell you what they want to know. >> exactly. without knowing the specifics of what was presented at the meeting. the principle of openness, transparency, very important. this is why we track this stuff very closely. fda does, cdc does and the white house. the current vaccine is superior. it's not a close call. i understand dr. offit's co...