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Reporting. thank you very much. six of president biden's former health advisers are now calling on him to change course, urging the biden administration to shift to a new pandemic strategy that focuses on adjusting toward what is being called a new normal. let's discuss what is going on with dr. jay varkey at emory university in atlanta. thank you for joining us. do you think it is time for the biden administration to focus on policies that allow us to adjust our living pattern with the virus rather than aiming to eliminate it? >> yeah, wolf. look, i think that this discussion needs to start...
We can invest in the science to improve our vaccines. these vaccines are amazing tools and they're doing exactly what they're designed to do in terps terms of preventing people from the most serious signs of covid. we should push the science on this to enhance immunity. remember the fact that the current vaccines that prevent us from doing, that prevent us from the serious complications, but we're seeing breakthrough infections. if we can drive those -- drive down the infects and enhance the immunity in the back of our nose and back of our throat, these could be vaccines administered by nasal ...
From getting any sort of symptomatic covid infection. put that in perspective for us. how promising might this be for ending the pandemic? >> two things on this. first of all, it's phenomenal. a high level of efficacy. this is the kind of stuff we saw early days of pfizer before the delta variant and other variants of concern came into effect. that was pretty compelling. kids need to get vaccinated because it's going to be good for them and protect them. obviously it's going to add population immunity to our broader population and help bring infection numbers down. it will be one more importan...