the influenza shot, the flu shot and getting the new updated covid shot. if people do those two things, that really reduces the burden on the healthcare system and allows us to focus on taking care of kids with rsv. when it comes to covid, what can you tell us about the new subvariants you re tracking? we re tracking them very closely. they re incredibly immune invasive. the good news is that they are the the ones that are circulating and growing here in the united states are all derivatives of ba.5. we have built a ba.5 vaccine. there is a brand-new vaccine, some people are still learning about it, a new bivalent vaccine and it targets ba.5. i remain confident that the new vaccines will hold up against this subvariants. but if you re relying on a vaccine you got six months or nine months ago to get you through this fall and winter, there is a pretty high l
especially as the winter and holiday season is approaching. so today the president will talk about some of the government campaigns to try to encourage these booster shots as well as bring together some leaders of major pharmacies like cvs and walgreens to talk about their efforts as well. now, earlier today dr. ashish jha who leads the covid-19 response here at the white house said that the white house is very concerned about that convergence of covid-19, flu and rsv and argued that getting this booster shot will help lesson the strain on the hospital system. we can t control everything, but there are things we can control. the two most important things right now are going out and getting the influenza shot, the flu shot, and going out and getting the new updated covid shot. if people do those two things then that really reduces the burden on the health care system and allows us to focus on taking care of kids with rsv. reporter: now, jha acknowledged that the covid-19