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Erin Burnett OutFront

Fauci on Covid Booster: Listen to CDC & FDA, not Pfizer

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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slash UK slash AI for people. Out front next, Dr. Anthony Fauci says, listen to the CDC, not Pfizer.

0:36.0

When it comes to vaccines, the principal investigator for Pfizer's COVID vaccine responds here out front.

0:41.3

Plus, breaking news, the Justice Department just releasing some of the most graphic video we have seen of the deadly insurrection.

0:47.3

As the chairman of the January 6th Select Committee says his group will meet with or without Republicans,

0:52.9

Congressman Benny Thompson is out front. And more breaking news

0:55.8

this hour. We are learning new details about what Manhattan prosecutors may be doing to try to get

1:00.5

Trump's top money man to flip on him. Let's go out front. And good evening, I'm Aaron Burnett. Out front

1:09.4

tonight, COVID confusion. The nation's top infectious disease expert says, listen to the CDC, not Pfizer, when it comes to needing a vaccine booster. This after Pfizer came out and announced it's applying for emergency FDA authorization for a booster, a booster that Americans would get as early as six months after

1:28.6

their second dose. Here's Dr. Fauci moments ago. Nothing has changed with regard to the CDC's

1:37.0

recommendations. So we respect what the pharmaceutical company is doing, but the American public

1:44.1

should take their advice

1:45.4

from the CDC and the FDA. The CDC and the FDA say, if you've been fully vaccinated,

1:51.2

at this point in time, you do not need a booster shot. So, look, this is a weird situation. That's not what we're hearing from Pfizer, who's doing the research and actually has the vaccine.

2:07.9

Pfizer had put out a statement saying that immunity from its vaccine was waning, and they specifically cited Israeli health ministry data.

2:14.7

Pfizer said, and I quote their press release in part, vaccine efficacy in

2:19.4

preventing both infection and symptomatic disease has declined six months post-vaccination.

2:25.8

It's a definitive statement. So this confusion is coming as the United States, just to be honest

2:32.0

and frank with you, is moving in the wrong direction when it comes to

2:34.4

the number of COVID cases. If you look at the map of new cases, compared to the prior week,

2:38.8

29 states are seeing an increase, which of course is more than half the country. And according to the CDC,

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