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A lot of people in the u.s. thought we would get it after six months. >> good question. the plan for the roll out was at the september 20th, the week of september 20th. that would actually be about eight months from the time, the very first people in this country got their vaccinations in january. that's the issue. we said and we continue to abide by it that the ultimate implementation of that would be according to regulatory aspect of the fda and the recommendations of the acip. although the plan for eight months is still there, we're still planning to do that, they very well may be a range o...

Merazzo, from the university of alabama birmingham. do you understand what the disconnect is? >> i wish i understood all of the details, but my take is this. we heard two and a half weeks ago from the white house in a very staged announcement, right? it was almost very theatrical that booster shots were going to be rolled out starting september 20th. and many people were rather surprised by that, including myself. first of all, because we really haven't seen all the data either from the pfizer vaccine or from israel, which is what the administration is apparently relying on a lot. second of al...

Appear that way. what we're doing -- what the white house has done is saying we want to be prepared for a rollout but the system of making sure that we get the fda approval and the recommendation from the advisory committee and immunization practices to the cdc, they're not superseding that at all. they are preparing for the likelihood that we will be giving boosters to individuals and logistically we'll be starting it on the week of september the 20th. it will all depend on the proper approval by the fda and the recommendation by the acip. that has not changed. >> moderna says it submitted it...

Four weeks apart because we were in crisis, we were losing 3,000 american lives a day, we had to get everybody fully vaccinated. but when you do that kind of schedule, it almost guarantees that you will have waning immunity at some point. and that's the reason why it became a three-dose vaccine. the other piece, though, is we haven't seen whether we're really seeing breakthrough hospitalizations. yet we are seeing a lot of breakthrough infections, efficacy's declining from over 90% to 40 to 50%. do we need to see that decline in hospitalizations as well? or because of the longhaul covid that w...

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