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So six months. if you got your second shot before may 1st, you are eligible to get the booster right now. i made it clear, we have ample supply of boosters. thanks to our planning and preparation, our booster program is off to a very strong start. over 20 million americans have now received a booster. in fact, in just six weeks we have already gotten boosters to about half the eligible seniors who received the pfizer vaccine. nearly half of the eligible seniors in just six weeks. it tooker inially 11 weeks to get half of all seniors their first shot when that program was launched back in decem...

Understandable domestic desire to crack on with a booster program, the kind of opportunity cost of that is vaccines not going overseas, but crucially, not only do people potentially miss out on a vaccine, but you allow maybe new variants to develop and the whole thing, the whole pandemic to last even longer. well, she made a very powerful argument, but i think it's also l important to remember. what is actually happening on the nhs front line today. and they are incredibly worried about the rise in the number. of daily cases. it is not the case that that is not feeding i through into increased...

A big flu outbreak as well. - i think we could seel something far worse than the worst winter crisis. and we could see on top of that big interruptions in regular- nhs treatment for cancer care, for people who need hips - and knees replaced as well. and that would be very, very bad for all of us. i butjeremy, just quickly, i mean, you'vejust done a really big piece of work and basically said that the government was too slow. do you have a kind of haunting feeling that they mightjust be too slow to act again, even if all it is is bringing back masks or even if all it is is really trying to put ...

Caused us such worry a year ago. |what i am really worried about is, j sort of, take the worst nhs winter - crisis that i had to deal with, - which was 2017—18, when we had a big flu outbreak as well. | i think we could see something far worse than the worst winter crisis. and we could see on top of that big interruptions in regular nhs - treatment for cancer care, for people who need hipsl and knees replaced as well. and that would be very, very bad for all of us. i butjeremy, just quickly, i mean, you've just done a really big piece of work and basically said that the government was too sl...

Against symptomatic covid infection for kids in that age group. it comes as the cdc expands its booster program for adults to include now all three vaccines in the u.s. joining me now is cnn medical analyst dr. leana wen, the former health commissioner for the city of baltimore. 90.7% effective against symptomatic covid, dr. wen. what do you think of this data, and how does it compare to the vaccine's effectiveness in other age groups? >> this is good, kate. so i am reassured that there will at least be some real life effectiveness of this data ahead of the meeting next week. priestly pfizer s...