New Definition of Fully Vaccinated is “On the Table”

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical advisor, weighs in on holiday parties with vaccinated family and friends as Covid-19 omicron variant spreads throughout the United States. The nation’s top infectious disease doctor discusses a possible redefinition of what it means to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Changes are certainly “on the table,” said Dr. Fauci, who emphasizes there is no doubt that optimum vaccination is with a booster dose. Currently, individuals are considered to be fully vaccinated either two weeks after their second dose of a two-dose series, such as the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Plus, an e-commerce boon for Fed-Ex during the holiday season and a major change in the legal battles against the makers of Oxycontin. In this episode: Dr. Anthony Fauci Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Klaire Odumody, @klairemarie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	This is Squag Pod.
0:06.0	I'm C and B. producer Claire Odymody.
0:08.0	Today on our podcast, COVID and Christmas.
0:12.0	We talk to White House Chief Medical Advisor, Dr Anthony Fauchy, as new cases climb.
0:18.0	We're having a rather substantial increase in percentage of the new Ammochron variant which has the unfortunate
0:24.7	capability of spreading very very efficiently. Dr. Fauchy on the new CDC booster
0:31.4	recommendations and he cautions against Omicron assumptions.
0:36.0	Even though you have a less of a percentage of people who would get hospitalized,
0:41.2	when you have a larger number of people getting infected, the total amount of
0:45.7	hospitalizations is going to be more and that's just simple math.
0:50.0	Plus, e-commerce, a boon for FedEx at the holidays, and a major change in the legal battles against
0:57.8	the makers of OxyContin.
1:00.4	It's Friday, December 17, 2021.
1:04.0	Squawk Pot begins right now.
1:06.0	Stand Becky by in three, two, one, fuel brief.
1:10.0	Good morning everybody.
1:12.0	Welcome to Squackbox here on
1:13.1	CM BC. I'm Becky Quick along with Joe
1:15.1	Kernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin. We're gonna give you an update right now on what
1:19.4	is becoming a massive surge of COVID in New York and New Jersey.
1:24.2	From December 9 to December 12th,
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