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Burton. thanks for being with us. what does that mean, waning antibody protection after six months. >> john, good morning. thanks for having me. look, the data that was produced last night in "the new england journal of medicine" shows if you get vaccinated with the moderna vaccine and then you get boosted you get a nice good level of protection with antibodies against the original covid cyrus strain and the omicron strain. what we see by six months is the levels begin to fall. if you project that out and you make that conclusion that they will continue to fall, we know that probably by the au...

>> if you get vaccinated with the moderna vaccine and then get boosted, you get a nice good level of protection with antibodies against the original covid virus strain. and also against the omicron strain. but what we see by six months is that those levels begin to fall. >> so he just gave that six-month sort of timeline here. should people expect to need another booster in six months? >> i don't think we know the answer to this yet. we definitely know that the first two doses are not enough. that you definitely have to get a third shot. so five months after you get pfizer or moderna or two mo...

But here's the truly disturbing part that student says the school forced him to movem into a single room last fall because he hadn't gotten a job and when he didn't immediately do so, this happened. he wrote that i was awakened by three exceedingly officious university housing officials pounding on my dorm door screaming my name. i groggily open the door and each of the three berated me in turn for sleeping in anin unauthorizedg bed.n well, that's when i realized he was being surveilled by the school. now he calls thesese tacticshe authoritarian and has a warning tonight to students and parent...

Virginia. in loudoun county, officials suspending 29 students who came to class without masks. >> how can a little superintendant feel that they can supercede an executive order? >> reporter: seven virginia school districts defying an executive order from governor glenn youngkin that allows parents to opt out of mask m mandates. but tasha nelson is fighting to keep masks in school. her 10-year-old son jack has cystic fibrosis. >> he asked me, "does this mean i'm not going to be able to go to school anymore?" >> reporter: this as scientists are trying to unlock the mystery of why some people se...

Protections won't exist? >> no. i think we are still looking at those data. the immune system is a remarkable thing. people's bodies will continue to make antibodies and t cells and memory b cells will be there. so when people get infected with the covid virus, they will be able to respond to it. but in order to be kept out of hospital, to be protected against death, know that you need to have high levels of antibody as the first line of defense. so that's what's so important about the data. . >> margins matter here a little bit, though. i don't know specifically what the percentages are. one ...