FDA Could Lay Out a Strategy for Booster Shots in Early September

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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First, Chris goes one-on-one with Former FDA Commissioner under Trump, Dr. Stephen Hahn. Then, Chris discusses partisan division amid a surge in Delta variant cases with "The Wizard of Odds," Harry Enten. Chris wraps up the show with Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Rep. Charlie Crist. 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	All right, thank you.
0:05.4	I'm Chris Cuomo.
0:06.4	Welcome to prime time the COVID Command Center.
0:09.8	The government is moving in the direction of giving it, getting us ready for booster shots.
0:14.3	Here's what we know.
0:15.3	The FDA says it could lay out a national strategy for vaccine booster shots sometime early
0:21.1	next month.
0:22.5	Are they certain?
0:23.5	No.
0:24.5	Are they certain we needed?
0:25.5	No.
0:26.5	Why?
0:27.5	Data?
0:28.5	And they have concerns, but the current data, which they haven't really adjusted for the
0:32.7	Delta variant, still very promising.
0:36.2	Moderna vaccine, 93% effective through six months after the second dose, Pfizer, 91% effective
0:45.5	after the same time frame, J and J, one dose vaccine, right, provides at least eight months
0:51.4	of immunity.
0:52.4	But again, these findings predate the Delta variant.
0:56.7	We are now told the vaccines don't stop Delta from spreading completely.
1:02.0	And at this rate, because we're not getting vaccinated quickly enough, we may need to extend
1:07.2	our fight against the pandemic, which means extending our protection, which means we may
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