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And so we re planning for that worst case scenario, but we re absolutely hoping that it s not going to be as bad as some people predict it s going to be. well, and kids are getting ready to go back to school monday. what s your advice right now to parents wondering how safe it is, should i send my kids to class and how big of a deal is this news for boosters for kids ages 12 to 15? yeah, so the booster thing, i ll take that first, is a really big deal. as i think most people understand, the fda is reviewing the evidence right now, expecting to come to a decision early this week, and then the cdc will make their recommendation, and so hopefully by end of next week people in that age group will be able to get their booster shots, which i think will do a great deal of good for that age group. as far as returning to school, it s always a challenge. because it s better to have kids in school. but you also have to have protective measures in place in ....
Which is not doing very much, and even though whoare boosted, within two to three months after getting the boost and many health care workers were early adopters like i was, we know that there is a sharp decline against omicron over the ensuing couple of months. so when you get boosted, 70% to 75% protection against symptomatic illness. but within two to three months, that goes down to 30%. so we ll have all of these health care hospitalized, but at home sick unable to take care of patients and this is when things can start to unravel. and i can attest to this booster thing. the covid positive i have in my house, there is a circle about seven different families in a similar situation, not a single boosted person has tested positive. only person that have gotten it were those that were not boosted. so let me ask you this, number one, did we wait too long to ....
Seem memory response of the body doesn t seem to memory response of the body doesn t seem to be memory response of the body doesn t seem to be as dependent on the variant, seem to be as dependent on the variant, if seem to be as dependent on the variant, if you like, all the changes variant, if you like, all the changes to the spike protein is the antibody changes to the spike protein is the antibody itself that is really encouraging. if people get the vaccine, encouraging. if people get the vaccine, get that booster, they were getting vaccine, get that booster, they were getting very big boost in the antibody for immediate protection but also antibody for immediate protection but also we hope a broad protection against but also we hope a broad protection against multiple variants. we haven t against multiple variants. we haven t yet tested omicron. as my colleague haven t yet tested omicron. as my colleague hasjust said, the key thing colleague hasjust said, th ....
Florida is not short changed on these monoclonals is front and for us. we re going to fight like hell to make sure our folks get what they need. that s rich coming from a guy whose strategy isn t fighting like hell against covid but basically boils down to everybody get sick and then get regeneron. and desantis largest donor just happens to be a regeneron investor. states who are actually trying to reduce the spread of covid should not get short changed while desantis promotes maximum sickness and then demands the biggest share of the treatment. joining me now is dr. kavita patel, a physician and former obama policy health director. i want to go back to where i started with this decision about the boosters because i along with everyone else have been rendered completely confused on the booster thing. how do you feel about this decision to say boosters for ....
Anti-fax campaign to this day, we need to take action to protect the vaccinated. if the vaccinated art protected from covid by getting vaccinated many on the sidelines ask what is the point? incredibly confusing. the professor of medicine at stanford and doctor harvey rich, professor of epidemiology, i am continually stunned by this messaging from the white house and we will get to the booster thing in a moment but to harris s tweet last night. absolutely shocking to me to hear essentially an anti-vaccination message, the vaccines are incredibly effective protecting people against severe disease. if you are vaccinated you don t need to be protected, the vaccines do that. the message we have to protect ....