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We will soon have more data on how well vaccines neutralize XBB.1.5.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you're relying on your old vaccine from nine months ago or an infection from a year ago, that's probably not going to be good enough and that's one of the reasons we're urging all Americans — but particularly older Americans, particularly seniors — to get the new updated COVID vaccine, because I do think it's going to make a really big difference.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So, if people went out and got their vaccines, we could really get through this without getting into a lot of trouble.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have provided, I think, an extraordinary amount of transparency about his care : When he tested positive ; how he's done each day ; the evolving nature of his symptoms : is his runny nose a little worse, a little bit better ? like, we've been very, very open and transparent with all of that data.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have 1.3 million doses of TPOXX -- the treatment for smallpox, it can also be used for monkeypox -- in our stockpile. And we are working day and night to make access to that treatment easier for providers around the country.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
So we're looking at a whole range of options. Obviously, if other tools that the federal government has at its disposal are helpful, we will not be shy about invoking those tools. But right now, we are looking at these sets of factors to see how much more vaccine can we get in United States.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're looking at the company that makes it. We're looking at their ability to produce more. We're talking to them about contract manufacturing in the United States and being able to produce more vaccines here, so we're looking at a whole range of options. Obviously, if other tools that the federal government has at its disposal are helpful, we will not be shy about invoking those tools. But right now, we are looking at these sets of factors to see how much more vaccine can we get in United States.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The FDA and The CDC clearly believe that people need two doses. And the reason that New York and many other places have been able to move forward with a first dose out to everybody, is because we've been able to show them that more doses are coming and that second doses will be able to be given to people, so given that, we encourage people to go ahead and use up all their doses as first doses.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are at a point in the pandemic where most COVID-19 deaths are preventable.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We can prevent serious illness, we can keep people out of the hospital and especially out of the ICU, We can save lives, and we can minimize the disruptions caused by COVID-19. Even in the face of BA.5, the tools we have continue to work, we are at a point in the pandemic where most COVID-19 deaths are preventable.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Still worth getting Modernas Covid-19 vaccine, it really offers an extra level of protection, an extra layer of protection. What vaccines do is they keep kids out of the hospital, and that's why they are so effective and everybody deserves that protection.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We expect an FDA decision shortly after the advisory committee meeting, and we look forward to this process playing out, the FDA authorization is not the final step in the process before vaccinations can begin. CDC must also issue its recommendations. If the FDA authorizes the vaccines, the CDC will have its advisory committee meetings and ultimately the CDC director will make her recommendations.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's not as contagious as Covid. So I am confident we're going to be able to keep our arms around it, but we'll track it very closely and use the tools we have to make sure we can continue to prevent further spread and take care of the people who get infected.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We've got to keep using that as the virus evolves and as the virus continues to do what it's doing.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We were hit with the BA.1 -- wave of infections in December, January. We saw BA.2. And now we're seeing, in a large chunk of the country, BA.2.12.1. They are more contagious with more immune escape, and they are driving a lot of the increases in infection that we're seeing across the nation right now.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're looking at a range of models, both internal and external models, and what they're predicting is that if we don't get ahead of this thing, we're going to have a lot of waning immunity, this virus continues to evolve, and we may see a pretty sizable wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths this fall and winter.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I thought that was a good decision, basically, because infection numbers are coming down, I think it's pretty reasonable to pull back on those mandates.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I expect this surge to peak in the next couple of weeks. It'll peak in different places of America at different times, but once we get into February, I really do expect much, much lower case numbers.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're seeing two sets of things happening : A lot of vaccinated people getting infected. We're doing fine. Largely avoiding getting particularly sick, avoiding the hospital ; a lot of unvaccinated people and high-risk people who have not gotten boosted and they're really filling up the hospitals, and so our hospital systems are under a lot of stress.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I hope we fix it in January and February, but we're going to have to have a real effort to make sure there's plentiful, cheap, ubiquitous testing everywhere in the country, that's where we should be in this pandemic right now.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Getting people back out of isolation is really critical to keeping things going and also just creating an incentive for people to get tested so they don't have to be isolated for 10 days.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have to be verythoughtful about travel bans, they feel like an easy thing todo.They don't work all that well.They have a real cost to them.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Kids need to get vaccinated because it's going to be good for them. It's going to protect them, obviously, it's also going to add population immunity to our broader population... It is going to be one more important step towards getting to the end of this pandemic.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There's so much more virus around, people who are infected have such high viral loads, but even short periods of time -- five minutes, seven minutes, you don't even have to be within six feet, for people who are unvaccinated, they are getting infected with much, much shorter exposure.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is the most contagious version of the virus we have seen throughout the whole pandemic, it's really very contagious.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you're in a low-infection, high-vaccination area, you don't need to be wearing a mask indoors if you're fully vaccinated, if I were in southwest Missouri right now, I'm fully vaccinated but I would be wearing a mask indoors.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Let's move on with our lives. And the fact that we're fighting these things is incredibly frustrating, because we're fighting ourselves, not just the virus anymore.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century. We actually have a ticket out.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Kids thankfully don't get as sick as adults, but kids do get sick. We've seen a lot of hospitalizations and unfortunately even a few deaths in kids from this disease, we are in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century. We actually have a ticket out.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's really going to have to be an all-of-the-above strategy, of bringing vaccines to people, it's the ground game and it's going to be a lot of work.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's a problem, we're going to be stuck with dealing with this for a long time.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Case numbers will plummet. We may not be at herd immunity, we'll see little outbreaks here and there but life will begin to really get back to normal.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This pandemic now is really among young people and it is a very dangerous time to be unvaccinated in the country because it is spreading pretty efficiently among young people and unvaccinated people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That will immediately add millions of more people eligible for vaccination. I bet a lot of those kids will get vaccinated, that will make a big difference as well in terms of building up population immunity.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If we just don't vaccinate, then obviously one of the things we've known is we get big outbreaks, you can get more variants, it's going to be hard to do those large gatherings, indoor concerts, outdoor baseball games, this stuff will get much, much harder if we do not make more progress on vaccinations.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I’ve been ... trying to say to them, `If everything goes very well, things will be horrible for the next several weeks. And it may be much longer,‘.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If we made IP available today, we will not add vaccines today. It's about tech transfer, knowledge of making vaccines. This is really about a complex biological agent. It's not clear to me that George Mason University.The moment India has a lot of unused vaccine capacity. The issue is building new capacity.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
For selfish reasons, every country should be concerned about large outbreaks that are out of control, countries like the United Kingdom and United States are doing a great job with vaccinations, and they should be feeling great about United Kingdom, but United Kingdom's only as good as variants that are out there.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think it’s critically important that we keep indoor mask mandates in for a while. We can’t give up on those, not while infection numbers are high. But it also means telling people what they can relax on, and wearing masks outside, again, unless you’re in a very, very crowded space for extended periods of time, probably doesn’t do much to protect you or protect others.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I expect, over the next few weeks, states to start lifting outdoor mask mandates.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're not there yet and the variants make it particularly concerning, we really do have to hunker down for a few more weeks. We are very close to the finish line but we can't stop yet.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If we could get some of these tests a bit more scaled up, we could use testing alone as a way to control the pandemic.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It was a great reminder that if you take a population of people, and do regular testing twice a week, that you can actually keep outbreaks under control.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It was a great reminder that if you take a population of people and do regular testing twice a week, that you can actually keep outbreaks under control and you can continue, not totally normal operations, but operations like with in-person classes throughout the fall.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
In the ideal world based on the modeling data -- twice-a-week testing.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is the last really horrible surge of Covid that we will hopefully ever have to deal with.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Johnson Johnson trial is the biggest trial of the vaccine that I know of -- 60,000 people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is completely expected, and it's just a reminder how ridiculous it is to try and meet a political timeline of having a vaccine before November 3, the Johnson Johnson trial is the biggest trial of the vaccine that I know of -- 60,000 people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
( Daily) cases have come down. Deaths are starting to decline. Hospitalizations are down. This is good news, and it's largely because of smart policies in Texas and Arizona and Florida around masking and closing bars.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We didn't get here overnight. This has really been one mishap after another, the single factor that really differentiates us from everybody else is denialism that has pervaded our entire approach.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
One is the underlying level of infection is rising, which is obviously the thing we are most concerned about, but in about 18 to 20 states, the number of tests that are being done is actually falling. And it's falling because our testing system is under such strain that we just can't even deliver the tests today that we were doing two weeks ago in about 18 to 20 states. That's very concerning because when cases are rising, and your number of tests are falling, that's a recipe for disaster.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Of course, all of this is completely unnecessary. We don't have to go through this, we're going through it because we're just not doing the basic stuff that we need to do to suppress the virus.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I like the fact he acknowledged the importance of wearing masks and that he acknowledged things will get worse. Unfortunately, there was also a certain amount of misinformation about how great America is doing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was good to have the President address the pandemic and the crisis that we are all in, i like the fact he acknowledged the importance of wearing masks and that he acknowledged things will get worse. Unfortunately, there was also a certain amount of misinformation about how great America is doing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think the CDC's recommendations are really basic and, in fact, I think they should go further. Look, you can open up schools anywhere you want. That's really not the debate.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is incredibly frustrating for the millions of Americans who have gotten sick and have not been able to get tests.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It makes sense why so many Americans are feeling like we're done, and they're feeling a certain sense of apathy.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
First, is that they were told that if we shut down and really kind of bend the curve, that we will we will be passed the worst and everything will work out.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The reality is that the virus is with us. The reality is that the first wave only hit a small number of places -- now it's coming to every other place. It's coming to a county or a city or a state near Ashish Jha.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Other states already had a lot of cases and they opened pretty rapidly, and what I think were seeing is a mix of some of that higher levels of cases and some outbreaks.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
What we saw was,around Memorial Day, the country started to open up and some states were in pretty good shape and eventually opened very slowly, other states already had a lot of cases and they opened pretty rapidly, and what I think were seeing is a mix of some of that higher levels of cases and some outbreaks.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Even if we don't have increasing cases, even if we keep things flat, it's reasonable to expect that we're going to hit 200,000 deaths sometime during the month of September, and that's just through September. The pandemic won't be over in September.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
But only when we are ready. And we are nowhere near ready now.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Once we have a vaccine that's effective and widely deployed, we can bring the pandemic to an end, until that time, we are going to continue to have to confront and deal with the virus.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Possibly a shortage of gloves, respirator masks and ventilators for people who develop pneumonia, and a shortage of doctors and nurses if they become ill.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think those are exactly the right thing we should be doing, what that does is really slows the rate of spread of that infection.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If we can spread those infections out over many weeks, and in fact, actually over many months, then yeah I think our hospitals can get there, but they're gon na have to start working now and getting prepared for what is going to be a lot of cases, we did not consider a situation like this today.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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