showing that they re not responding well to the doses and they do need this third dose. so what about the folks who are not immunocompromised? is there a need, you think, an urgent need, for those people who have had, let s say, the pfizer two-shot variant? is there a need for them to go out and get a booster, as well? for elderly, more than 65, or for people that have other conditions, other medical conditions at risk, this is a recommendation. and the same for health care workers. because what we re seeing in multiple studies in the u.s. and internationally is that your antibodies wind down after several months. i personally as a health care worker in the front lines, i just got my booster last week. and many of our health care workers are getting it. normal, healthy, young people right now, there s no strong recommendation from cdc or w.h.o to get that third dose. i would limit it to at-risk populations like health care
direction. but this isn t really a time to take, you know, your foot off the pedal. and so, definitely commends having more of a cautious approach. this virus can really throw a lot of curveballs. and then also, what s to say that there might be another new variant, which the w.h.o continues to warn us about. you know, this virus and other coronaviruses do share genetic information. there is precedent for that. we haven t seen that yet, but is that something that s going to happen this winter? we hope not. i would argue that we re not testing vaccinated people that arrive here in hawaii, but the federal guidelines for international travel say that we should. the u.s. is on every other country s really high list of being dangerous for travel or for travelers to come to their country.
you can t test your way out of covid. but it can certainly cause you to stop at the door if your child or you have a runny nose and you re not sure, is this just allergies, a cold, or could it be symptomatic covid? so i think it s incredibly important. in the uk, i have colleagues who can call essentially a 1-800-number, and for free, chris, they get five tests or even more mailed to their home for a certain number of days. it is a critical component. we should be demanding more. the biden administration has made good on it. and even importantly, with contacts at this global summit today, it will be important to figure out how we can do this worldwide. we need to have vaccination be the top priority. but even with vaccines, we re watching breakthrough cases. we want to know when things get critical, testing at home or in the workplace, even, rapid testing can be an important component to success in overcoming this globally. shannon, let s talk about what the white house is doing toda
million doses of the pfizer vaccine. that is on top of a $500 million purchase they made over the summer that they will send overseas. so by this time next year, the administration plans to have donated 1.1 billion doses of vaccine to countries overseas and about 160 million of them have already gone out the door. so the biden administration trying to say, we can do both. we can give boosters to our population. they say they have enough supply to vaccinate every american who s eligible for a vaccine, whether it s people 65 or older, or whether eventually we start giving it to people in the younger age ranges, as well as vaccinating the world. and the u.s. is doing more at this point than any ore country, but the world health organization says to vaccinate the world, to get 70% of the world vaccinated, we need 11 billion doses. so 1 billion certainly significant, but either other
. right now, searchers are back at it in a huge florida wildlife reserve looking for gabby petito s fiance, who s a person of interest in her death. investigators want to talk to brian laundrie, who hasn t been seen in more than a week after wyoming officials confirmed that the body discovered sunday in a national park is petito and they ruled her death a homicide. joining me now from venice, florida, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. what s the latest on the search, vaughn? reporter: yeah, we re talking about a 40-square-mile area here, the carlton reserve. this is about 20 minutes from where brian laundrie was living. it was now more than three weeks ago, september 1st, that his family says he returned in that white van from the western part of the country, but without gabby. and ever since then, he was here, in florida, not providing any answers to any questions, including being uncooperative