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Comorbidities or different professions almost gets you to that place. we will see if acip goes along with it and there's other consequences if they don't, then that looks like there is a war between fda and cdc and that would be very damaging as well. >> nobody wants to see that. all right. dr. peter hotez down in texas, thank you very much. >> thank you. and up next, growing tension at the state department over the mysterious havana syndrome. plus the abrupt resignation of the u.s. special envoy to haiti over what he calls the inhumane decision to deport haitian migrants. you're watching ...

Disease and people with high-risk jobs, health care workers and people working in mass transit who are around people all the time. is it it right to do this in incremental fashion, or should they authorize booster shots for everybody out of the box? >> i think, john, it will depend a lot on what the acip does today. even though they say people over 65 and those with high-risk conditions, it's really important how you define high-risk conditions. if you define high-risk condition a bmi, body mass index over 30, right off the bat that's 42% of all americans. if you say it's going to be a bmi ove...

Those at risk to the fda, would you have expected a decision from the fda before cdc takes it up? >> absolutely. i'm a little confused on what the acip is actually meeting about because it's not clear whether the fda is going to accept the committee recommendation or not. typically they do, but these of course are extraordinary times and there is a rationale for extending that vaccine protection for third immunizations down the 40 and 50-year-olds. so the risk i guess is that if fda does not accept the recommendation and wants to make an alteration, the committee will have to meet again. >> i ...

Protection. and in an environment where there aren't a lot of other easy things that we can do, the masks become a very important tool. >> well, i hope -- i hope that he will listen to -- to you and the facts and the studies. i mean, he is a medical doctor. now, the surgeon general there. um, "the new york times" is just reporting that the fda has authorized booster shots of the pfizer vaccine for those who are 65 or older and those at high risk. of course, you said on the -- the board of pfizer. you know the situation well. do you think the fda will do booster shots for those under 65? as pre...

Evaluated? >> well, the acip, the advisory committee of the cdc focuses on the science as the fda does but also focuses on implementation and equity and so there will be quite a robust discussion covering the -- the idea of booster shots and which groups should get those booster shots. it does seem that the data that was presented to the independent advisory committee of the fda, the information that was presented really was not compelling enough in my mind that boosters should be available for everyone. i think ifg risk-based approach and identifying those at highest risk would be the directi...