an anesthesiologist as ucla medical was escorted off the premises because he refused to get a vaccine under a separate ucla vaccine mandate for health workers. dr. christopher said as he walked away from his job, quote, this is what happens when you stand up for freedom. this is the price you have to pay sometimes. i m willing to lose everything, job, paycheck, freedom, even my life for this cause. potentially a preview of the sort of arguments outside bars, restaurants, nail salons and the rest across the city of l.a. in the coming weeks. bill: reaction will be interesting. jonathan live in l.a. dana: i was just thinking about so they will make this decision and move on but i wonder about the booster issue. if the vaccine does decline over time in terms of efficacy will they mandate boosters as well? how do you follow up with that paperwork and all that?
virus. and i think half the deaths have been avoidable. . and the flags on the mall are white, they re not red or blue. trump has weighed in on the booster issue. let s take a listen well, i got the pfizer. i would have been very happy with any of them. mr. president, you have talked a lot about the good state of your health. i m curious, would you get the booster shot? well, if i felt it was necessary. i guess, i have sort of a double vaccine. because, as you know, i had it, recovered from it pretty well. what are your thoughts on that? . his answer should have been, if my doctor recommends the booster, i will absolutely get the booster. and i encourage all my supporters to ask your doctor if you need a booster and to go out and get the booster. . right. right. . instead, he s ripping it. and if i had to guess, i would guess he s already been boosted. in secret. like the original vaccine. in secret. dr. jonathan reiner, thank you very much.
couple weeks. the white house has fallen apart on the booster issue. this is what the cdc has not done, provide a clear answer. do not say you ll put out a booster if it isn t going to happen. a recall hadn t happened two decades prior. why? because he went to a french restaurant, broke the rules, but more important the way he handled getting kids back to school because he was afraid of the teachers union. i personally don t think it was a win for newsom on covid, it was a reflection of who he ran against. as president biden said, you re basically running against trump. so that s what changed a lot of it. they didn t run it on a pro-covid agenda, they ran it
comparatively small study, including people 18 and older only. the advisory panel will look. we expect data to be presented through the morning. in the afternoon, there will be a q and a. that s where there could be fireworks if the advisory panel votes to authorize this, the fda typically adopts recommendation of advisory panels but doesn t have to. a lot of suspense is built in separate from this. cdc advisers are set to meet next week to discuss the booster issue. as you know, the biden administration last month announced vaccine booster rollout would begin september 20th. that s monday. so far there s no consensus about what to do next, stephanie. we will be keeping a close watch on what we hear out of the fda. gabe, stay close. we have to turn to the nation s capital where law enforcement is on high alert preparing for the justice for j6
certain groups of people who would benefit from these boosters and even boosters from different manufacturers. anna wants to know how concerned should we be that an even more resistant mutation than the delta variant may arise? we all have to be concerned about this. i mean, this is the world in which we re living right now. i m hoping that doesn t happen. obviously we have to do a lot of forecasting and it s like almost like weather tracking around the world to see sort of what s cropping up and something starting to emerge. this really raises two issues, one is the booster issue we just talked about. we do have to think about the rest of the world where these mutations may arise and then start to travel around the world. so vaccination needs to be made available there as well and this is going to be part of the discussion on friday. do we boost people in certain countries while other countries simply do not have enough vaccine for their first shots. that s going to be an importan