i got a couple. probably includes hers. what are you most worried about? i want to understand where you think we are compared to when new york city was ground zero and things were pretty much at rock bottom with the coronavirus. how concerned are you about the state of things right now? especially among the unvaccinated. and given that you re on the pfizer board and you work for the government, there s a lot of public health experience you have. what are the reasons for the vaccine hesitancy? what s being done to combat it? first, what s the threat level of the coronavirus resurgence right now? look, i m very worried about what we re seeing around the country. we re seeing it against the backdrop of a fairly normal resumption of activity. people are taking precautions, everything is not back to 100%
it s great to have you along with us. as the delta variant prompts concerns of a coronavirus resurgence, drugmaker pfizer will brief u.s. government officials tomorrow evening on covid-19 vaccine boosters. last week pfizer, biontech have seen waning immunity among people who got the vaccine and would seek emergency use authorization for a booster from the fda in august. the fda and cdc said there s no evidence boosters are needed yet, but a short time ago, israel announced it s immediately going to allow third doses of the pfizer vaccine for people with compromised immune systems. joining me now with more is dr. megan rainy, emergency physician at brown university and co-founder of get us ppe. dr. rani, great to see you. so what we re really talking about here is people who were vaccinated a while ago where there may be some declining efficacy, where they may have some underlying health problems.
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