subvariant will be in the rearview mirror or whether we should switch to a different type of technology to give longer protection. and the question is, should we start advancing to a third immunization, a third booster for the american people and for someone like president biden, the problem is, we re having a lot of trouble convincing americans to take even the first booster only about 30% of americans are doing that. i took the second booster and a lot of my colleagues but very few americans are doing that. so i think there s a lot of booster fatigue in the country. and what are you looking at, though, with that in mind, right, if you are of advanced age and you are immunocompromised in certain ways are we looking at a booster every single year at this point? or possibly more frequently until we come up with another strategy and so that s what i ve been critical of the white house and hhs about is they ve not really come up with an
what the president is specifically experiencing now and when he was administered this paxlovid saying, the paxlovid started just now, so just a couple of hours ago, it seem, the symptoms are tired, runny nose, dry cough as well, the president went to bed and felt fine but did not sleep well and then, in fact, he tested positive this morning. what are you expecting to see as he progresses with his symptoms over the next couple of days, when he ll be feeling better despite the fact that these are just mild symptoms especially with the treatment of paxlovid? well, yasmin, this is expected. so for all your viewers out there, what dr. jha just articulated are the president s symptoms. they re upper respiratory symptoms, cough, runny nose, sore throat, constitutional symptom, fatigue, malaise, not unexpected and this is how we expect omicron, the subvariant, ba.5, to actually cause vaccine breakthrough, positive tests. our immune system just to nerd
colored bands on the days that they have their tests if they re going to be in a meeting with the president and take it seriously. a lot of meetings are still done by zoom even now and yet you see on this trip that we saw in israel and saudi arabia a president who, you know, is intermingling with people in a very, you know, robust way, right? we saw that again in his domestic trip just yesterday in massachusetts. when he gets off the plane of air force one they told us maybe he won t shake hands because of the new contagious subvariant of covid but does the fist bump at first then he s holding people up close. his face close to theirs and putting their arm around him and shaking hands. he can t stop himself from doing something more distant doesn t work for him not wearing a mask and meeting all these people in saudi arabia, massachusetts, all the time and seems like it will catch up to him at some point. fortunately as everybody said, you know, he is vaccinated,