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>> you say the durability, meaning how long having infection will protect you against getting covid but some people have gotten second infections. so we don't know how durable it is, correct? >> right. we don't know how durable the vaccines are and obviously, people are getting boosters because the vaccines that the immunity hasn't been that durable, particularly in older people. we're seeing rising breakthrough infections. we don't know how durable. it will probably be the case while there is a period of immunity offered by natural infection, it won't be in perpt duty forever, eventually that...

Heard. >> okay. now hear the science. >> we have numerous studies from last school year that repeatedly demonstrate that school outbreaks are prevented when we have masking in schools. >> reporter: now briefly back to lebron james' decision to get vaccinated. he made it clear he's not now promoting anything. he's not getting involved in anyone else's business. and that's fair enough. he's a basketball player. not an epidemiologist. but, still, his personal decision could influence others to do the same. and maybe get us a little bit closer to that still vague goal of herd immunity. >> nick wat...

Skeptics with a bit of a show and tell today getting the pfizer booster in public while reminding people who is eligible and who is not as we are seeing long lines in some places back again not all states starting the booster roll out i want to bring in the former fda commission e dr. scott gottlieb, author of the new book "uncontrolled spread: why covid crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic" doctor thank you for joining us. patiently, as we have been dealing with breaking news welcome to you. >> thanks for having me. >> as president biden was getting the booster he talked about t...

We have chicken pox vaccination, flu vaccinations. this isn't just to protect them but their patients. i think the government is well within its right to mandate it. it gets more touchy when you're looking at vaccinations for smaller dids. i don't think the government should be looking at it. it's going to turn something that's been a politically furtive debate to literally having politicians running against these map dates. that could be corrosive to have people voluntarily seek out vaccinations na's subjectively political. >> you outsource enforcement like you do mask mandates to restaurant ...

And down. on a political question, i think the biggest failing of the administration in my view was a lack of consistency in terms of how they approached the pandemic. i think there was a view that took hold over time that uncontrolled spread was inevitable and we couldn't intervene with policy to mitigate the spread, so policy really wasn't a solution. i think that was wrong. i think there were things we could do, if we could galvanize the public behind action to slow the spread, buy us more time. things like encouraging the use of masks, encouraging people to get vaccinated once the vaccines...