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We have a ton of developments today in the Coronavirus Vaccine situation. What we do know is encouraging in many waysramping up vaccine production. What we dont know about the effectiveness is terrifying. It makes you wonder if the u. S. Needs to dramatically rethink the current Vaccine Distribution strategy. Lets start with the good news. Today johnson and johnson leased some promising data from its phase three clinical trials. The vaccine is 72 effective in the u. S. At preventing moderate to severe illness. Experts consider that a strong level of protection. Here is the potential worrying n...

Evidence suggests for most people at least those up-to-date on their vaccines covid can include a cough, fatigue, congestion and a runny nose. a member on immunization practices says these symptoms are based on early reports of omicron cases not scientific studies. now back to "dateline." why do you think there's such a fascination with heather's disappearance? >> i think because no one truly knows what happened to her. her body has yet to be found. she was well-liked by a lot of people, and i think that the fact that a 20-year-old can just vanish so quickly into thin air and never be heard ...

But we also have early signs that it may not cause severe disease, so more people are getting sick but they're not necessarily ending up in the hospital or dying at this point. but we know that there's some challenges, too, in terms of making judgments too early because there are often lags with hospitalizations, lags with deaths as well, and so i think we really have to be careful about making any real final determinations about how bad omicron actually is. >> there still also seems to be a debate about what fully vaccinated means. at first we thought it was two doses, now it seems you'll nee...

Down to the age of 16, which was the approval of the pfizer product, and we were going to be prepared to roll this out during the week of september the 20th. but the thing that seems people have not heard as loud and clear is, that was dependent on the regulatory approval of the fda and the ultimate recommendation of the cdc, a la their advisory committee, on immunization practices. that's what you're going to see. as you rolled out on the screen, you have the recommendation from the advisory beard, the fda will now make a determination, and then the cdc will, on the advice of their advisory c...

Employees have been furloughed. an idle cdc prevents managing all viral outbreaks not only the flu. the doctor director of the vaccine research group at the mayo and valentine's day valentine's day advisory group on immunization practices joins me now. thank you very much, doctor. tell me about the challenges in tracking the flu and what the risk is given the shutdown now which is going into the third week. >> right. for me, i really think of this as a national health security issue. the cdc is the agency charged with taking all the snapshots we get internationally and from each state and crea...