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Reeling from watching those images of the fires in colorado. the reason i want to mention that is that i don t think the 21st century we have any more the luxury of dealing with a single catastrophic event or major disaster. we re having horrible wildfires over the last few years, related to drought, related to climate change, and at the same time we re experiencing a historic level of pandemic infection. so we are in the middle of it and it s going to take a lot of really forward-thinking and understanding of how we re going to cope with all of this at once. i think we have the capability where we re going to have to keep our heads straight on as we look at what s coming down the pike. i do think, yes, a fourth shot is coming, like israel is planning to do and i think we will be boosting our young teenagers. all of that is coming but it s in the maelstrom of other issues, yasmin. we re going to get into that booster conversation, doctor, in just a moment. ....
With how sophisticated they ve become we have to fight back. vaccines are our singlele best tool. we need to continue to normalize them. do you think mandates are too hard to enact or not? yeah, i thinker that a distraction from most elements. i think families are following the court cases, the political baseball when the real point is that the vaccines are safe and it doesn t matter whether you are required or fought, you should get vaccinated. we got to keep hammering that point out. do you think the i am curious on boosters right now, number one, are you seeing the same increase we ve seen in other place, thanks to omicron, suddenly there is a demand for boosters. duke that the booster conversation was a bet convoluted for the last month and sort of held that back for a bit? it was. but to be fair, everything with this pandemic has somewhat fast ....
So it was modest printed got remember the best tool is vaccination of adults and those are the ones who are showing up in the hospitals and dying right now this for you to focus our effort. arthel: but they don t seem to listen until there on the gurney saying that i wish i had gotten it read. guest: and think that s why some people say is booster conversation is a distraction and cloth masks and four -year-olds is a district must focus all our efforts on not immune vaccinated adults from those who don t have natural vaccinated immunity, they re the ones dying now if anyone out there and i strongly encourage you to get vaccinated, do today because delta is burning through the population quickly. arthel: get vaccinated. thank you very much for joining us and take care. eric: looking for gabby petito s fiancé brian laundrie in a massive preserve there you know is named person of interest in gabby s disappearance before her body was tragically found in the wyoming national park at f ....
Introduced some data to support boosting their vaccine, but their vaccine actually seems to be a little bit more robust in terms of less waning of antibody protection so it will be interesting to see what the fda says about that. very importantly 14 million americans have received the johnson & johnson single-dose vaccine which, unfortunately, seems to work better in double dose, so and that group of americans really has been sort orphaned and has been left in the lurch in terms of whether they need to be boosted, and i think they urgently need some answer as to that. that s 8% of americans so far, but, again, it s still 8% of americans and they deserve questions. j&j says it will submit that data in the near future. look, there s every between have this booster conversation with the data that shows efficacy after six months that starts to wane a bit. if you can help you can help. the president said was talking about how we re in this mess ....
Emerge around the world and subsequently find their way to the united states. it s not enough, but the united states, as you point out, is doing more than the rest of the world. for every one shot administered here, three shots going around the world. you ve got to make sure in the interim places have enough oxygen, enough ppe, enough treatments to help keep people alive during that time period as the vaccination programs continue. absolutely. i also want to ask you about boosters. there s a lot going on around the booster conversation here in the united states. you ve got the cdc advisers meeting, you have the fda awaiting the fda decision on emergency authorization, green lighting those booster shots. can you just talk me through what all could be happening this week with regard to this decision and what people should know. sure. first of all, you d be right to be a bit confused because the sequencing on this has been off. we heard from the white house a few weeks ago that boos ....