All right, the White House is at it again telling you that if you want to go out there and enjoy the holidays,

you better get boosted, you better get vaccinated, that's the only way to have a safe holiday from COVID.

Joining us now is the man stating there next to Dr. Fauci White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, Dr. Eshis Jha.

He and Fauci are about there, that briefing as we noted.

And Dr. Jha, when it comes to these boosters, I know that you were on a booster push right now,

seeing as Betsy Klein was reporting on this yesterday, but when it comes to this push, people want to know how long this protection is going to last for these new boosters.

What can you tell them?

Yeah, so good morning and first of all, thanks for having me back.

Here's what we know.

We know that these new updated vaccines are far superior to the prior vaccine that we had.

And it makes a lot of sense, right? Because these new vaccines target the version of Omicron that's out there.

So that's sort of fact number one.

Fact number two that we know is that if people are up to date on their vaccines, they don't end up in the hospital.

They don't end up dying, especially if they get treated if they have a breakthrough infection.

So we're now at a point where we can protect people from serious illness.

And how long are these things going to last? Well, the benefit certainly for a majority of people from serious illness should probably last a close to a whole year.

For some high-risk people, they might last a little bit less time.

We may need to do something else for the highest-risk people maybe later in the spring or summer.

But if you want to get through the holiday safely, if you want to avoid getting really sick during the holidays,

this is the single most important thing that you can do.

But that plan and your outlook for the holidays really relies on people getting the boosters.

So far, only 35 million people in the US have gotten one of those revised shots.

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