BOOSTER BONANZA
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 4 September 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have the booster vaccine being put out all throughout certain countries in the world |
| 0:05.8 | and also here in the US. |
| 0:07.5 | And this is what the news looks like for that. |
| 0:09.5 | COVID-19 booster shots are coming. |
| 0:12.3 | All Americans will need a booster shot and there would be a third booster shot. |
| 0:16.7 | I do believe that all of us are going to need another shot at some point. |
| 0:20.8 | Just last week we heard from the CDC or the FDA authorizing those booster shots for |
| 0:25.2 | immunocompromised people only. Now we're hearing that's been extended. |
| 0:30.3 | What changed? |
| 0:31.5 | People who are fully vaccinated who don't have immune disorders that their protection |
| 0:36.6 | levels for severe disease and hospitalization are falling. |
| 0:39.2 | We have several studies that have demonstrated waning effectiveness in 10 million people |
| 0:44.0 | in New York state and 80,000 people in the Mayo Clinic. |
| 0:47.6 | The plan is for every adult to get a booster shot, eight months after you got your second shot. |
| 0:55.3 | US health officials now recommending we get this booster shot eight months after our second dose. |
| 1:00.4 | If the FDA hasn't decided that the booster is necessary, how do you put a date out there |
| 1:06.4 | saying September 20th we can start giving booster shots? |
| 1:09.3 | So the issue this broad guidance here that everybody's going to need a booster at eight months |
| 1:14.8 | does not align with the data as we know it to be right now. |
| 1:18.4 | So here's my question, is there hope or better yet data that getting this third booster shot |
| 1:24.6 | could actually prevent transmission? |
| 1:27.2 | So there's actually hope we don't have data yet. |
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