It met the targets of the study. so this is still going to be robust protection against severe disease and against death. we wish we had a magic bullet that could prevent any disease transmission. we re not there yet but i think in time we will. but right now this is a great layer of protection to prevent severe disease and death. it will be a good thing. definitely be a good thing. hopefully pfizer will follow right behind them. on top of worrying about covid and the flu, and i m now told that i need to worry about pediatric hepatitis cases. tell us about why this is happening now. i understand it is still a small subset of cases, but what can we do? yeah, so we re not exactly sure why it is happening now, but there are two key things to realize here for parents. the first one is that symptoms are not subtle. so we know that stomach bugs are incredibly common as we remove
Dose for all adults. it s a lot broader than what pfizer had asked for. targeting only older people over 65. right now fourth doses are only available to folks who have weakened immune systems. i want to bring in on this our doctor, an msnbc medical contributor and former white house policy director for the obama administration. we re always glad to have you on the show. good afternoon. good afternoon, hallie. how significant is it that moderna wants this fourth dose given the green light for all adults? what does that say to you? what is the time line? yeah. it s interesting timing given what we re seeing levels of b.a. 2 rising in in the united states and new york city and 30% of the waste water picking up b.a. 2, this fourth dose, especially now, the data we have is from israel. i suspect pfizer and moderna are going to lean on that. they also had some of that trial data from israel for their own vaccines and a fourth shot. basically, what we know is the
About the transmissionability of it. is this a situation where if we re looking at the rise of the b.a. 2 variant overseas, should we be going to get off label booster shots? what is your sense of this? no. not certainly not off label. and here s why. the fourth shot again, israeli data, hopefully pfizer and moderna and the data they submitted to the fda will have some of the unkpelg information you re asking for. but right now we know the third shot really does protect us against hospitalization and death. the question is how many months after that third shot people like me and many others are well into the six months after the third shot. how many months after that shird shot do we need if so a fourth one but, no, really the majority of americans are still well within that 6 to 9 months period since the booster. let me put a plug in. only 40% of eligible adults got the boosters. we need to do a lot more work in
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Telangana Govt Doing Audit of Remdesivir Consumption in Private Hospitals to Prevent Misuse: KTR May 14, 2021, 10:32 IST
IT and Industries Minister KTR on Thursday evening went live on social media platform Twitter and interacted directly with Twitteratti.
“Let’s do an #AskKTR session exclusively on all COVID related issues & what Govt plans are to tackle the pandemic. Please send in your comments, questions & suggestions,” Tweeted the Minister.
During the session, wishes poured in for the Minister who had recently recovered from Covid19. Many concerned citizens also enquired about his present health status.
During the two hour long session, #AskKTR remained on top trends in India on Twitter.