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Protection against delta and omicron. but clearly as leana was talking about it does sort of start to diminish significantly for omicron by week 20 or so. but then if you get the boosters you get a pretty significant, within two weeks return of some protection. still a little diminished, but it s a lot better than at 20 weeks. i think this data s emerging, anderson, which i think is part of why you re feeling like there s a little bit of dissonance in terms of the messages people are giving. they re trying to figure it out. but i think it s pretty clear that we re still in a very significant surge as much as we d like to believe that we were starting to look at this in the rearview mirror. it s all well and good to talk about this stuff kind of theoretically, but for everybody at home, and i mean all of us, you know, it gets down to like these annoying hard to figure out questions, like if somebody wants to come over to your house tomorrow, you know, to hang out with your kids or w ....
You very well against symptomatic infection. and if i m getting together with other people, i would want to make sure that those around me don t have symptomatic covid. sanjay, why aren t state and federal officials on the same page here? or are they? well, i mean, if you look at the cdc s guidelines, i think they ve been pretty clear on this. but let me show you i think as you have data emerging on this in terms of the protectiveness, and we re still learning, we can look at how well these vaccines alone without the booster protect and then see what the booster sort of does. initially when you look at the up to nine weeks you do get good protection against delta and omicron. but clearly as leana was talking about it does sort of start to diminish significantly for omicron by week 20 or so. but then if you get the boosters you get a pretty significant, within two weeks return of some protection. still a little diminished, but it s a lot better than at 20 weeks. i think this data s ....