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Vaccinated yet. we need to -- the rest of the world has to get vaccinated. we do need boosters here. evidence is emerging that shows these vaccines are waning and the boosters bringing back to where you need to be. so everyone over 18, booster. >> mike: president biden tweeted a week ago today i'm announcing we purchased 10 million treatment courses of pfizer's antiviral covid-19 pill. vaccination is still a most important tool but this new pill may dramatically reduce hospitalizations and deaths help accelerate our path out of this pandemic. merck and pfizer going to the fda process with thes...

Still time to get vaccinated before then. we have all those people who are unvaccinated, the people who do need boosters and the children, 5 and older. we need to get them all vaccinated. >> that's right. okay. so one startling number that i saw just came out yesterday from the cdc, is that only one in eight eligible children in this country have received their first vaccine dose. only one in eight, you know. i have my daughter singing all i want for christmas is my two vaccines. she wants her second one. she literally made that up the other day. when you see a number like that, how troubling ...

Vaccinated yet, we need to walk and chew bubblegum at the same time, mike. the rest of the world has to get vaccinated. we do need boosters here. evidence is emerging that shows these vaccines are waning in the boosters bring you back to where you need to be, so everyone over 18, booster. >> mike: all right, president biden tweeted a week ago, today am announcing we purchased 10 million treatment courses of the covid-19 pill, vaccination still are most important will put this new pill may dramatically reduce hospitalizations and deaths and help accelerate our path out of this pandemic. merck a...

Increases the durability so you will not necessarily need it every six months or a year. we're hoping it pushes it out more. if it doesn't, and the data show we do need it more often, then we'll do it. >> joining me now is dr. patel, msnbc medical contributor, physician, and fellow at the brookings institution, and former obama white house health policy director. welcome to you, and let me say in anticipation of knowing we're going to talk about this, i booked my booster shot appointment this morning. before coming into the studio, so i'm really excited about that, frankly, but let's talk abou...

We all need boosters every six month or year? >> it's a great question. we are building this airplane in the air and watching conditions evolved in realtime. it's clear a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine will help reduce the risk of infection which will contain the virus and help us move forward towards normalcy that we so crave. >> you were interviewed about kids wearing masks in school. we love to hear your take on that. >> i think we can agree there is a reason we don't mandate masks in schools and i think recognize that masks are not a risk-free and harm-free intervention. the emotion...