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Would say there is not enough data here to justify that full recommendation of going to high risk individuals. but i think dr. walensky and the fda understands how upset the public is, especially those who are willing to get those first two immunizations, and they're terrified of getting breakthrough covid. and breakthrough long covid, especially with the data showing brain matter brain degeneration. she had to make a tough judgment call and ultimately i support what she did. >> how unusual is it to overrule the advisers? >> you know, usually acip is also working closely with the cdc and by th...

I don't think so. in fact, what dr. walensky has done is aligned her agency with what the fda recommendations were. the fda recommendations were actually then taken up by the acip and the acip rejected one of the recommendations. this aligns. i think what is confusing for people is the good news is the transparency. you can watch this the meetings, hear the discussions on social media. the bad news, it is really hard to see how the sausage is made. it is really confusing and you think people don't know what they're talking about. the reality is that there is a lot of unsrcertainty here and i t...

Voices then you have a panel weigh in, say this is what we've decided and the director says, no, i'm going to change my mind on that. we're regular old americans trying to figure out the right thing to do. how do we navigate this? >> there were a couple things said at yesterday's meeting at the acip that were important. first they made the statement that the most important thing we need to do is vaccinate the unvaccinated. the second thing they said is if you are a member of the general public and you have had two doses of mrna vaccines you should consider yourself fully vaccinated, but then t...

Breaking with advisers? >> well, if what she wound up doing was mostly siding with the fda's recommendation and, you know, it's -- i understand both sides of this discussion, both from the advisory committee and immunization practices and her statement this morning and ultimately i side with d dr. walensky, but it is based on very limited data. we have from israel showing that the ithird immunization gives substantially increased protection against hospitalizations and breakthrough cases and possibly long covid. but it is only based on 25 days after the third immunization. so limited data in h...

The end acip will likely go along with the fda recommendations. >> where do you fall on that question of what the purpose of vaccines is because he think the longer we are in this pandemic the more important that question is. is it to prevent severe infection and death, is it to try to prevent as many people as possible from getting sick at all? how do you view that and how do you think that informs the policy discussion? >> well, i want it all. i want to vaccinate -- i want to vaccinate our country out of this epidemic and i feel it is possible. it's a very high bar. it's going to be 90% immu...