Fauci: Three doses of Covid-19 vaccine are likely needed for full protection

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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An official rollout of Covid-19 vaccine booster doses could begin within weeks, pending FDA authorization. The Biden administration has had internal conversations about scaling back the ambitious booster plan laid out by federal health officials. The Pfizer/BioNTech booster plan remains on track but one source tells CNN it may take a few weeks longer to move forward with a third dose for Modern’s vaccine. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci said it’s likely three doses are needed for full protection. Dr. Jeremy Faust is an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Leana Wen is the former Baltimore health commissioner and is also an emergency room physician. They both join AC360 to discuss whether or not they think people should be getting a third dose. Airdate: September 3, 2021 Guests: Dr. Jeremy Faust Dr. Leana Wen To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, the death toll on the East Coast from the remnants of Hurricane Ida is now
0:04.8	at least 50 people. More than that shortly along with the live report from Louisiana,
0:09.2	where the storm first hit and President Biden visited today, we begin though with a speed bump
0:14.0	on the administration's road to COVID boosters by the 20th of this month. As you know,
0:18.4	that's the date the president announced just last month.
0:23.0	Depending approval from the Food and Drug Administration, the CDC's committee
0:27.1	of outside experts will be ready to start these booster, this booster program during the week
0:32.9	of September 20. In which time anyone vaccinated on or before January 20 will be eligible to get
0:41.1	a booster shot. Well, that was the president on August 18th and that qualification about FDA and CDC
0:47.0	approval being needed has been part of the message ever since as a White House spokesman reminded
0:51.5	reporters today. All the same though, that part of it might have gotten lost somewhat because it's
0:56.2	mostly been a stream of sound bites like these. I would not at all be surprised that the adequate
1:04.2	full regimen for vaccination will likely be three doses. There's no doubt from the dramatic data
1:12.8	from the Israeli study that the boosts that are being now done there and contemplated here
1:18.5	support very strongly the rationale for such an approach. Well, now even as that message was
1:27.9	going out, though federal officials were warning the White House that there might not be enough data
1:32.8	on the Moderna vaccine to recommend anything but the Pfizer shot as a booster. It's a sign,
1:38.3	this leading vaccine expert says that the administration is taking the wrong approach with the public.
1:42.9	You can't make an announcement and then say we'll wait to see with the FDA and CDC says that's
1:49.6	just really not the right way to do it. Well, meantime, this is playing out cases and deaths from
1:54.3	the Delta variant arising. The country now averaging more than 106,000 new cases and upwards of
2:00.7	1,400 new fatalities every single day. Now with that as the backdrop, the question is how is the
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