reporter: when you talk to administration officials there s been a clear focus, both publicly and in constant deliberations behind the scenes, about how they can increase vaccinations, bump up boosters. they obviously want to ramp it up in the days ahead, but there s a significant amount of contingency planning underway according to administration officials, particularly as it pertains to vaccines. there are ongoing discussions with vaccine makers about what a process would look like if they need to update or shift the vaccines based on what they discover from the variant. also, how to ramp up perhaps doing an entire roll-out of new vaccines if that becomes a necessity. keep in mind, cost assessments. all of that is going into right now what is happening behind the scenes. this is a moment right now where there s no question, everybody is hoping for the best, picking up anecdotal evidence they ve seen from various countries and hoping it is born out in terms of what the variant would
pertains to vaccines. there are ongoing discussions with vaccine makers about what a process would look like if they need to update or shift the vaccines based on what they discover from the variant. also, how to ramp up perhaps doing an entire roll-out of new vaccines if that becomes a necessity. keep in mind, cost assessments. all of that is going into right now what is happening behind the scenes. this is a moment right now where there s no question, everybody is hoping for the best, picking up anecdotal evidence they ve seen from various countries and hoping it is born out in terms of what the variant would mean across the board, but recognizing that there has to be preparation for the worst. that more than anything else is what we have seen administration officials focused on, and i think that s what you are going to hear from the president on thursday as he rolls out his proposals for how to address the pandemic in the weeks and months ahead. obviously a winter season coming up,
between administration officials and vaccine makers, how a vaccine would be changed depending on the variant, but also things like cost assessments for a national vaccine effort, what that would look like. how it would play out. the logistics of it. that s been part of what s been happening. so when they talk about buying time, whether or not it stepped anything from coming to the united states, nobody thought that would be the case. what they wanted more than anything else, both in the near term and these long-term issues, was time to prepare for what they knew was inevitable. doctor, let s turn to you to asuede some fears here. we know health experts said this would happen. but there might be some people who are a bit anxious now that it has been discovered in california. how different is the public health picture now at 2:19 eastern than it was at 12:19 now
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