New Shots and a New Era for COVID
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🗓️ 12 September 2023
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The Food and Drug Administration just approved a new booster.
And on Tuesday advisers to the CDC recommended it for everyone six months and older.
With a new variant and a new booster, how should we think about the pandemic in this moment?
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| 0:00.0 | As President Joe Biden was preparing for his trip to a summit in India last week, |
| 0:04.7 | a speed bump popped up that a lot of families have had to deal with lately. |
| 0:08.1 | I can tell you that the First Lady is experiencing mild symptoms and will remain |
| 0:12.6 | in Delaware for the week. First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19. |
| 0:17.6 | And like many of us, President Biden faced the question, |
| 0:21.3 | should he cancel his own plans and isolate? Unlike the rest of us, he had a press secretary |
| 0:26.5 | on hand to answer. Here was a report as exchange with Karin John Pierre after the First Lady's |
| 0:30.8 | diagnosis. Right now it seems like people all around us are testing positive for COVID. |
| 0:51.1 | But for the most part, they're not getting seriously ill. The Food and Drug Administration |
| 0:55.7 | just approved a new booster and on Tuesday, advisors to the CDC recommended it for everyone |
| 1:01.2 | six months and older. Many doctors say the new booster offers important protection. |
| 1:06.3 | Like former White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha. |
| 1:10.1 | The data so far suggests that the new COVID vaccine should be really quite effective |
| 1:15.0 | against even the new emerging variants that we have seen come up in the last few weeks. |
| 1:19.0 | So I'm actually quite optimistic this new vaccine is going to be protective. |
| 1:23.6 | And he says that even goes for people who think they might not need it. |
| 1:26.8 | For younger healthy people, I say, look, getting the vaccine will reduce your risk of being out of |
| 1:32.2 | school or being out of work for a while. It reduces how much you transmit it. |
| 1:36.4 | There are a lot of good reasons to get your annual COVID shot. I understand that, you know, |
| 1:40.8 | it's been a long pandemic and people want to move on. The best way to move on is just to get your |
| 1:45.4 | annual COVID shot and know that that's going to provide a good amount of protection. |
| 1:48.4 | Consider this with a new variant and a new booster. |
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