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Embargoed until 11:00 today. many people will see this data for the first time, including many federal health officials. i've been talking to people over the past several days, some of whom, jim, told me they did not anticipate boosters being needed. i think they're going to be seeing this data for the first time saw l time along with the rest of the country. three separate data sets, all u.s.-based data sets. i bring that up because what we have been largely looking at until today was international data sets from places like israel, for example. it looks at long term care facilities specifica...

Dying. they think the vaccines still hold up very well, but what they're saying, based on the waning they're seeing against infection, the concern is they want to get ahead of the curve, they say. now, this is coming from the task force, jim. let me just end with that. the fda, they need to obviously look at safety data and efficacy data, and some of that data hasn't even been submitted yet. so this is not imminent, the booster. and then the cdc has to weigh in on it and formally recommend this. but it is very clear from my conversations with people today that we're headed in this direction an...

Otherwise eligible from evacuation, from traveling out of the country. but it's really hard to imagine that they have a list right now, a consular officer outside the airport who are looking for these specific afghans whose passports were burned during this process. jim? >> kylie atwood, thanks so much. and, listen to seth moulton's point to you just earlier, he and others were warning about this going back months, years in fact. >> years. >> the idea that it's all being done in these final moments is remarkable. >> it could have been different. >> yeah. broward county florida schools are de...

But the idea that this virus is becoming more endemic, more entrenched, i think people were concerned about that from the very start given how contagious even some of the initial variants were. i think delta obviously really added to that. i think what is interesting about this conversation about boosters, though, jim, and i really drill down on this. some say, look, this was always expected, as rich boeser was just talking about. many shots do require boosters. but you have a prime shot and a boost shot. i think the way that it was sort of explained early on was that you got two shots of thes...