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If everybody is boosted, that's your best shot at having everyone back.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Omicron has turned this undoubtedly into a three-dose vaccine, if it wasn't heading that way already, two doses just aren't going to be sufficient any longer. If everybody is boosted, that's your best shot at having everyone back [ in the office ].
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're going to be living in most communities with Delta plus Omicron, instead of one superseding the other, in parts of the country that are unvaccinated, I am very worried.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The problem with Omicron is hotspots will be easier to generate, the things that might have been two or three people getting Covid in the office will be 15 or 30 people getting Covid.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Omicron has turned this undoubtedly into a three-dose vaccine, if it wasn't heading that way already, two doses just aren't going to be sufficient any longer.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it will be manageable, many of us mentally live in a 2020 mindset. But now we have seven or eight interventions : rapid tests we can give people, boosters, ventilation, therapies.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There is a bit of a split personality in how people react, ron DeSantis will probably go running mask-less into ICU wards without fear. But people in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, California and Pacific Northwest are going to display more caution.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
They're not right. Could 2022 be the year where the state of emergency ends ? Perhaps, but it's not the year when SARS-CoV-2 stop circulating or hundreds of thousands of people in this country stop dying.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Boost everybody. If everybody is boosted, that's your best shot at having everyone back.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Israel began their vaccination process a little bit ahead of us, so I think in many respects, we've been looking to them -- and to a certain extent, the UK -- for what we can expect, as well as the people who participated in the original clinical trials of the vaccines in 2020, those three things together, generally speaking, give us a sense of what to predict for the future.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The questions that people have now about society will be cleared out, new York City will be the first city in the country that takes those questions off the table completely as this gets implemented.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think every government agency ought to rethink what’s appropriate, there are a number of people in surveys, by the way, who say precisely these words, ‘I’m not going to take it, unless it’s required.’.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's going to take more than him to make the case. It's going to take getting very aggressive.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We should think about the Delta variant as the 2020 version of Covid-19 on steroids, it's twice as infectious. Fortunately, unlike 2020, we actually have a tool that stops the Delta variant in its tracks : It's called vaccine.
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That will be a telltale sign for them to say' Why am I on the fence any longer ? This has now been fully approved by the FDA,' and even though it's got a great record already, that will I think be another stamp of approval.
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It's one more reason for people to take this seriously and say,' Wow, we've got great vaccines, we're so lucky to have them, maybe I should take one or two,'.
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In those communities, a Covid that spreads twice as fast is not a good thing.
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Some of them clearly don't want to succeed, bad incentives to keep blaming us.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There is a very, very small fraction of doses that have been sent out to states that will ultimately not be used, this will be – these will be fractional amounts and really will not have any significant bearing on our ability to commit to distribute vaccines globally.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think the great news is that the 1.2 million kids that have gotten vaccinated this week are on their way to a carefree summer.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
For people who work and get paid by the hour, who don't necessarily get time off from their boss, who don't have vaccines available in their community, who don't take walk-in hours, there's still a number of people for whom it just needs to be easier.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have to remember the fact that in the next two to six weeks, the variants that we've seen in Michigan, those variants are also present in other states. So our ability to vaccinate people quickly in each of those states, rather than taking vaccines and shifting it to playing whack-a-mole, isn't the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The next set of people who want vaccines are not the people who are going to try and make 100 appointments and drive 100 miles. They are going to be the people that will maybe make one effort and travel one mile, or maybe even less than that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's an incredibly effective vaccine, when people learn those facts, we find more and more people each month say,' You know what, I think I'm going to get vaccinated.'.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
So I think we're going to find more and more things like that, both internationally but also, Pam, in the Andy Slavitt, I think you're going to see increasing steps over the next few weeks on what vaccinated Americans can do, in addition to just travel -- because not all of us travel -- that are going to be very important, there's no question that the key to getting back to life that we used to know is vaccination.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
When we arrived, the US was sequencing only a small fragment of what other countries were. This hampered our ability to find and react to these variants.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have to remember the fact that in the next two to six weeks, the variants that we've seen in Michigan -- those variants are also present in other states, so our ability to vaccinate people quickly in each of those states, rather than taking vaccines and shifting it to playing whack-a-mole, isn't the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you do the math, there is plenty of supply to continue to vaccinate Americans at 3 million per day, and then some. That's not to mention the fact that there are many doses that have already been distributed into states, i think White House officials're in the fortunate position, White House officials have to remind White House officials, where White House officials have three vaccines approved that are very effective vaccines, but White House officials are also importantly not dependent upon this.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You want people to feel less scared -- that's good -- but you also want people to be cautious and conscientious of the fact that there's a lot of people who aren't vaccinated yet.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have to keep reminding people -- as I try to do and as others try to do -- that just because you've got 100 million people that have had their first vaccination, it also means that you've got 150 million adults that haven't yet, you want people to feel less scared -- that's good -- but you also want people to be cautious and conscientious of the fact that there's a lot of people who aren't vaccinated yet.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're in a situation, and we will be for a little while, of undersupply.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have been working with states and with those distributors to make sure that those excess doses quickly get to the places that there needed when they exist.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Ellume has been ramping up manufacturing and will ship 100,000 test kits per month to the US from February through July, that's good but it's obviously not where we'll need to be.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Ellume has been ramping up manufacturing and will ship 100,000 test kits per month to The US from February through July.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Scott Gottlieb was Scott Gottlieb. This is not a partisan issue, this is an issue for everyone's public health, and will slow down the spread of the disease.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Once we come back out, if we come back to exactly our old habits, Medicaid Services's going to spread just as fast, so we have to be out and take the kind of precautions that are safe precautions. We can get back to normal life. We can live with this virus. But if you're in a place with these red areas like Arizona, North Carolina, Arkansas, you should be very, very careful.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
While we have been staying indoors we have been slowing down the spread. What we haven't done is get rid of the virus. The virus is still out there.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
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