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For those parts of the country which are under vaccinated or less vaccinated than what we are seeing, and overall, the trend -- i believe we can be cautiously optimistic about this, that the trend is starting to come down and ultimately as a net effect will come down for the whole country. if we super pose that upon the major availability of testing to the tune of half a billion tests now coming soon and another half a billion, the availability of therapies like pax vid, and other therapies, and the data that has recently come out from the cdc are really striking about how effective a third sh...

0 ukraine. at least 130,000 troops and that number has gone up and they continue to conduct live fire exercises. according to the white house, president biden reaffirmed his support. zelensky said there's no need to panic and he knows the situation better than president biden. according to the kremlin, putin told his french counterpart that the u.s. and nato had not addressed his fundamental concerns about security in the region. joining me from kyiv is my partner matt bradley, courtney kube is in the briefing room and will ask questions on our behalf. matt, let me start with you on what we're...

When, not if. i just say get your third shot. forget about what the definition is. i just want to see people be optimally protected. that's what i'm concerned about. if me, that's unequivocally and unquestionably getting a third shot boost. >> but apparently, that may not be enough either. pfizer's ceo raised the possibility of needing a fourth shot to contend with the omicron variant. so what does that mean for defining the fully vaccinated and when does it end? let's ask dr. francis collins, the director of the nih. thanks so much for being here. you know the question. if i'm inoculated but ...

It's a milestone we all looked forward to. with the rise of new variants, attention is shifting to boosters, and 15% is still too low, health officials say. it's why the fda authorized the pfizer booster for 16 and 17-year-olds today while a growing number of colleges and universities are issuing booster mandates for students. so what should that mean for what we consider a fully vaxed person to be? here's dr. fauci. >> it's going to be a matter of when, not if. i just say get your third shot. forget about what the definition is. i just want to see people be optimally protected. that's what i'...

Similarity between the moderna and the pfizer product. >> is there any idea what the durability of those boosters are, how long before we need to come back for another? >> we would hope that a third shot boost of an mrna would not only increase the height of the response, the breadth of the response, but we're hoping that we will increase the durability of response and there is reason to believe that that might happen, because when you do a boost, you really increase what we call the affinity maturation of the response, which means you give it broader coverage hopefully that broader will also ...