BOOSTERS PROVING VACCINE ISN’T EFFECTIVE?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Vaccine-makers and key public health experts promised their experimental vaccines were over 90% effective. Now vaccine failure is pushing several countries to give boosters in an effort to chase Covid variants against a backdrop of waning vaccine protection.

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0:00.0	We're seeing the entry of the booster conversation.
0:04.1	Okay.
0:05.0	Now, obviously at the beginning, it was just two shots
0:07.2	and out or if Johnson and Johnson one shot now,
0:09.1	you're done, you're good.
0:10.8	Let's move on to life.
0:11.9	We're just going to do it for healthcare workers
0:13.4	and for people at risk over 50, over 60.
0:16.4	Then it's racing all the way down to infants.
0:18.3	And now we're talking boosters.
0:19.3	So Israel becomes first country to approve
0:22.1	COVID-19 vaccine boosters.
0:23.8	Will the US be next?
0:25.6	Now, this is not only Israel, but it's Pfizer as well.
0:28.9	Pfizer to ask US regulators to authorize booster
0:32.2	of his COVID-19 vaccine.
0:33.8	So it says in this article, which is very fascinating,
0:36.3	Pfizer chief scientific officer,
0:38.1	Michael Dolston, said the recently reported dip
0:41.3	in the vaccine's effectiveness in Israel
0:43.0	was mostly due to infections and people
0:44.8	who had been vaccinated in January or February.
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