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cushion effect usually with these vaccines. that cushion effect is likely to be reduced as a result of omicron and all the mutations they see. but they still think that the vaccines are going to be effective, maybe just a slight erosion of that effectiveness. interesting. they still work. that s the important thing. as we know, we keep hearing get your booster if you haven t already. i want to ask you about this antiviral pill. fda advisers are meeting to talk about emergency use authorization. there s been a lot of hope put into that pill. it s not a replacement for vaccines. what do you anticipate will happen? why is there so much focus on that pill? well, this would be if it does get authorized, it would be the first antiviral pill. there are other medications to treat covid the try and keep people from getting in the hospital, but i think we can show you some of is data here. basically they look to people who have been diagnosed but were not sick enough to go to the hospita
against severe illness. that cushion may be eroded because of some of the mutations they re seeing with omicron, but what that might mean clinically for patients may not be as big a deal, meaning that in the laboratory it me a seem like a big deal, but in the real world it may not feel that much different. i think it makes the case right now, kate, that people who have been thinking about vaccines but haven t yet gotten one, they should reconsider. these vaccines, they do like they will at least offer some protection against omicron. if you re all due for a booster at this point, six months out from your pfizer or moderna vaccines or two months out from j&j, you should get that booster because it will increase that cushion effect. so i think that that s sort of what we take away from it. within a couple of weeks we ll have a much better idea. they ll take the virus, take blood from vaccinated people, put it in a test tube and see what happens. we may find out it s very protective or it
this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. we have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, the best scientists and we re learning more every single day. so that s what the president is saying and the cdc is also booster recommendations. they are saying everyone 18 and older should get a booster shot. the unvaccinated need to get vaccinated and those who are eligible to get boosted should get boosted. if you get the level of antibody high enough, the protection spills over to those other variants. now, dr. sanjay gupta explained to chris a few minutes ago, why those booster shots are so important right now. if you then boost on top of it, you get a bigger cushion effect, which is why i think now the boosters are being recommended for all adults because even if those antibodies
allows with the left s desperate push for boosters. watch. providing the cushioned affective antibodies but the mutated virus, it may start to drop off. it does make a case, stronger case even for boosters. you want to get more of that cushion effect so that no matter the variant, can provide you some of that protection. laura: doctor, is the cushion effect a medical term? i wasn t aware of that. look, i can understand how there s a desire, need, a passion to create some sort of magic bullet against a virus, especially in all of its new variants that will inevitably come over time. having a cushion simply as a lay word of her trying to broaden the spectrum of activity of the vaccine. however, we know that the vaccine is what it is. so it s vaccinating us against us one specific protein with one