over the backlog, are you? i think that s something we have to think about all the time. one thing i m really passionate about is that i think fact checking is really important, but i think fact checking alone is not enough. and i think, actually, in many ways, we can learn from the people that push conspiracy theories and are successful in promoting harmful disinformation, how to investigate it and tackle it and expose it. because, actually, you have to weaponise the same things, the same techniques they use human stories, bringing stories to life, capturing people s attention to explain this to them. you want to be showing the real world impact it has, you want to show people how this affects all of our lives, and you want to really expose the tactics and how it works so people can think, oh, hang on a second. i don t really want to be conned by this person, either. and that doesn t mean you shouldn t ask questions of the mainstream media the media, just as you do, you know,
johnson & johnson vaccine, a competitor to the pfizer and moderna ones but still the columbia one had pretty much the same findings but the bottom line here, the booster out there still does good. it will keep you from getting very, very sick. it could keep you from dying. so you definitely want to get it but it may not be at the better than the booster that you would have gotten, say, six months ago. so what does it say about the future of these pfizer/moderna covid vaccines? right, because that s what they were testing was pfizer and moderna and actually the very high ranking fda official was talking to stat, a news outlet, and was frank about it. i was surprised. the fda doesn t usually say stuff like this. what he said was we need to look at other types of vaccines and there are those out there that might provide more durable immunity. there have been such concerns that these pfizer and moderna vaccines while they re
provide enhanced protection against omicron subvariants but new research shows that might not be the case. that doesn t mean you shouldn t get one, something the president just did yesterday to promote the shot. elizabeth cohen is joining us with more. what does this research, the new data we have say? reporter: ana, these results were pretty disappointing. labs at harvard and columbia went to see, gee, these new boosters that are supposed to be so great, are they any better than the plain old booster that is we ve been getting for months and months? let s take a look at what the lab at harvard found. they said when people got the original booster, just the one that people have been getting for months and months now, it increased antibodies by 15 times. when they got the new one the omicron one that the president got yesterday, it increased antibodies by 17 times and there really wasn t a significant difference between those two. now, i should say that the harvard lab is a lab that h
finishing third force? i just think this is disgusting. he put in this directive right before the fourth of july weekend. he made no effort to get this information out there, got a lot of people by surprise including folks who have been exempted from this mandate moving forward. it is so despicable. again, to be clear, he is wrong when he says the vaccine stops in spite of covid. that doesn t mean you shouldn t get the vaccine. it simply means what he is using as an argument here is just flat-out false. shannon: nobody is getting anything by you at there in the pacific northwest, we always appreciate you being the source to us. thank you. thank you. for one coming up, can use someone else s netflix password legally? you know you are. you re breaking the law. that is next. bertymutual.com they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. and a blowtorch. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. i want to rock and roll all night
but plaintiffs are cherry picking their judges in every-increasing ways because the judiciary is to polarized. with the mask mandate no longer in effect, does it raise the risk of travel especially as covid cases are climbing here in the u.s.? honestly anderson, i m not surprised by what happened today because it was only really a matter of time before the biden administration lifted the mask mandate themselves. i think it probably would have happened in the next two weeks. yes, ba.2 cases are rising, but we re not seeing a concurrent rise in hospitalizations, which is really good. and i think this actually signals a broader shift by the biden administration away from mandates and top-down decision-making by the government, moving to empowering individuals for the choices that they have. and so in this case, people should remember just because you re not required by the government to wear a mask, that doesn t mean you shouldn t wear a mask. i m definitely going to be masking when i