Page 9 - Grocery Workers News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Questions that we're going to be asking in this briefing in the next hour, chris. >> a lot of questions, dr. patel. so much confusion over the cdc's new guidelines shortening quarantine procedures for those with covid and exposed to it. i want to read what a senior health official told "the washington post." they worried that the sheer volumes of infections could mean that tens of thousands of police, firefighters, grocery workers, and other essential employees would be out of work, making it challenging to keep society functioning. even though many of the infections would be mild or produce n...

It's not just the health care sector. it will be ems, firefighters, grocery workers, airlines. so we're going to have to really move forward as quickly as we can and be able to do things like reduce the number of days of isolation. but if we're going to reduce the number of days of isolation, we know that some people may still be infectious. so we'll have to double down on things like high quality masks, kn95s, n95s. we should not see a health care worker in a health care setting wearing anything but the highest quality of masks to prevent transmission and spread to other health workers. so ve...

Specific point but a significant one, healthcare workers, frontline workers that could be define understand a lot of ways. to break with your advisers and make this announcement just after midnight, i guess, this morning? >> indeed. um, first, i just want to come back and say i have this exceptional group of scientific advisers. and there were four votes yesterday and there was real enthusiasm. in fact, unanimity for some of the votes to recommend boosters for people who are at high risk, people over the age of 65, people in long-term care facilities, people at high risk of severe disease beca...

The southern hemisphere is not vaccinated? and to that i say, look, the mrna vaccines were never intended to vaccinate the world with a brand-new technology you just cannot make enough of it and that's why where our vaccine comes in, a low cost similar levels of protection, easily accessible vaccine that there's no limit to the amount you can scale and so we've been frustrated not having more help from the u.s. government and the international bodies on our own, we've been scaling up production with biological e, an amazing organization in india and bio pharma in indonesia, but that's the answ...

And most at risk of exposure, especially who and how many people do you think this group will include? >> i think it will be a very large group ultimately if you look at the overall list. you mentioned people over the age of 65, that alone is ultimately about 45 million people in the country. people who are at high risk of developing severe covid, we'll hear more about what that means specifically from the cdc, but, you know, people who have type 2 diabetes, people who have cardiac conditions, all these things. if you start to add that population up, you're talking tens of millions more, maybe...