Age group or compared to is it the adult version? you correct me if i m wrong there. you could have, for instance n my family by the time my second child has this that will be 4 years old compared to what my other child who when he was 5 had, they are having a fraction, just a fraction of what the other dose was. do you think that s going to change in the future so that this is a little more normalized for age? well, i think the companies, the vaccine scientists, have been very careful to try by age to adjust the dose so you get a good effect with a minimum of side effects and they ve done it very carefully age by age. so i think your pediatrician once it s available, and it will take some time yet, will know exactly which vaccine to give to which child depending on their age. all right. okay. still waiting. still waiting, dr. schaffner.
Surprised and when you see a number like one out of every hundred americans over 65 has been killed by covid, you just wonder, what is it going to take to make people sit up and take notice? time magazine called vaccine scientists the 2021 heroes of the year. i m not disputing that but they and you have to be looking at it and saying, yeah, but if city people still refused to get maxed vaccinated and wear masks, where does that leave us? evolutionarily, this virus was perfect. it kills a whole lot of people. but it doesn t kill most of the people. it is very easy when most of us go through life without somebody very close to us who has died or come close to dying. it s easy for us to just say, you know, my friend had, it was like a bad cold, until it strikes them. and this virus, we know some risk factors, but it is so wacky how it will just reach
Wind and looking surprised, like it s still a surprise. when we see a number, one out of every hundred americans over 65 has been killed by covid, you just wonder, what is it going to take to make people sit up and take notice? i mean, time magazine called vaccine scientists, the 2021 heroes of the year. i m not disputing that, but, you know, they and you have to be looking at it and saying, yeah, but if people still refuse to get vaccinated and wear masks, where does that leave us? right. you know, evolutionarily, this virus was perfect. it kills a whole lot of people, but it doesn t kill most of the people, and so it s very easy when most of us go through life without somebody very close to us who has died or come close to dying. it s easy for us to just say, my friend had it, it was a bad cold, until it strikes them. we know some risk factors, but
Increasingly, we re getting the data regarding preventing serious disease, due to omicron. is it possible that down the road, is it possible that we might have to get an annual booster against covid the way we do with influenza. that s possible. in fact, the vaccine scientists are working to see if they could make a combined flu covid vaccine that would make it easier for all of us. let s not go down the road. let s do what we should do right now to make these holidays so much safer and happier for everyone. sometimes you just have to focus on one day at a time, when we get a time. one month at a time. i do think it s important to remind our viewers that, you know, it s not just the covid vaccine. the majority of immunizations recommended by the cdc are multidose series. i just wonder, do you see in the bigger picture here the covid vaccine being like the polio
If it isn t already, i m sure it will be here soon, i m afraid. and how long until we have a picture of how the vaccines stack up against it? i m wondering about that covid treatment pill that we ve been hearing about from pfizer, you know, do they have to go back to the drawing board on that? what are your thoughts on that? well, diagnostic tests, do they work as well? the antiviral drugs or monoclonal antibodies, all of that is currently being tested. as i like to say, the lights are on in the laboratories at night. i think we ll get a better idea this coming week about how well our vaccines work. i would hope we get at least partial protection against this strain and then of course the vaccine scientists are already working their laboratories are illuminated at night too, trying to update their vaccines to keep unwith covid and omicron.
Benefits on both sides. tough stuff. how long do you think it will take for scientists to determine whether this new variant oma cron, is if our current vaccines that we re using are effective against oma cron? i think it might take in the laboratory a week or a little bit more. but we will be getting data on almost a daily basis to give us a better sense of that. and you can imagine that the vaccine scientists already are thinking about how to modify our current vaccines to cope with oma crom if that is necessary. even before we heard about this new designation, we knew that europe is seeing a spike in covid cases. do you think that that is a harbinger of what is about to happen in the u.s.? well let s come back to the u.s. for a moment. where we have the delta variant, which is the most common around
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Attention to what happened in israel. it doesn t seem to be making as big of a difference there in terms of that. and it is yet another reminder of not only as jim pointed out, the science is changing, we re learning as we go, but all of those important questions that you raise that are hopefully going to be discussed today or at this very moment, it also raises a question of how potentially damaging the rush and the back and forth is when it comes to public perception of the booster. are you concerned at all about what could happen let s say for example if the committee advises, let s not do boosters right now? yeah, i mean, i think first of all just in terms of messaging, leaving aside the science of it for a second, i think it is t has been c confusing. you want to hear from your scientistic agencies with two seen your vaccine scientists saying they re going to leave the fda. it is clear that the scientific agencies did not speak with a single voice here and it is the
Basement, and climbing the walls because he tested positive for covid. he assumes from an unvaccinated patient in his hospital. all of you guys and buy that, medical professionals, got the shot early, which means you are month window has come to an end. in some cases long ago. and i assume you are an advocate of boosters, whatever they do to sort out the federal policy. well of course ryan, but i am more than anything, i want to see this pandemic and in the quickest way possible. which is why i think the details incontrovertible, from the fda, and their leading vaccine scientists. that look at over 2025 different studies over the country. and the end result is that it at your high risk, 65 an older. or high risk medical condition. you should get a booster shot. that is not controversial. we all are aligned on. that but if you are like me, in my late thirties. otherwise i feel pretty darn