under 5 and eligible for a vaccine yet. do you agree with his assessment, and if so how concerning is that? well, dr. gotlieb makes an interesting point. i haven t seen an increased risk in toddlers yet, thank goodness, and my fingers are crossed, but way to protect the toddlers is to have all the adults and all the older children vaccinated, of course. you create a cocoon of protection around them so the virus has a hard time finding them. that s the way to do that, and we still have a lot of work to do in this country to get everybody else vaccinated. one last question before i let you go. i note messaging can be confusing. the science is changing. that s part of it, but we heard from dr. fauci, that you know, we could be hearing yet more recommendations, specifically that americans test negative before returning to work right after a test, not just for the shortened protocol but adding that testing. do you believe that that s the right call? well, would i say it would be
important intervention you can do to protect yourself and your loved ones. the third dose is what they are folk yutsd on but the former fda chief dr. scott gotlieb says he thinks we may need annual covid boosters for a while. do you agree with that, and a lot of people are thinking when does this end? when does it stop? on the up hand dr. scott gotlieb is the former fda chief and also a board member of pfizer. the other point i ll make about this we don t know what endemic covid looks like. we are still in pandemic covid, so i think there s a lot to learn about the evolution of this virus under endemic conditions, when of course, we re not gripped by this but it s something more akin to the flu and cold, something seasonal that some group of people will get but it s not taking over the society the way that omicron is right now and we have a lot more to learn about where research on vaccines goes from here. i would really like to see a pan covid vaccine and that s a potential scient
is will it hole up? there studies that show that chinese home-grope vaccines may not be effective against the omicron variant but either way we ll see the covid strategies being pushed to the limit. let s talk more about the drama involving novak joke virk the number one men s tennis player in the world is back home in serbia and the australian open is upped way without him. now his participation in the french. scott. fill us in. there was a huge spam but not only now, we were waiting for him at the vip exit to the airport, but, of course, novak djokovic a vip, well beyond that in this country, a national hero and that s why his treatment in