household gathering vaccinated, masks off. i ve got family coming in. i m hopeful about this holiday season, but i m also being cautious. i have an 82-year-old father. i m going to take those precautions that are necessary. that includes making sure we re vaccinated. that also might include for households having access to at-home tests that you can do. they re not foolproof but they can be helpful. and then finally, ventilation if you need to and you re worried wearing masks and quarantining on either end for three days to just make sure that you re not in any high-risk activities if you re worried about anybody in your household. but brian, this should be a much better winter. but it s again up to us. we still have 30% of the population needs to be vaccinated and 70% that needs to have some form of boosting at some point in time. thank you for that answer. we hope people at home are paying attention. our guest tonight once again has been dr. kavita patel with our thanks. another bre
cleanup on aisle 7 situation, but what do viewers need to know as they think about their holiday gatherings? i think the key thing is that we don t know what the holidays will bring unless you can kind of guarantee that you keep the crowd small, limit it to mostly vaccinated people, and, of course, with children s vaccines potentially being one of the key meetings during the fda s month of october, that could be a big game changer. i mean, a lot of what dr. fauci has had to give pretty sound advice on has been because under 12 people are not vaccinated. immune compromised people are basically unprotected. the most people at a household gathering, the better protection, the higher the confidence if vaccinated. if case rates stay low, we ll have an incredible holiday season. if we can vaccinate more people, we deserve to reward the benefits come from those kind of hard-earned vaccinations and what we ve been doing the last 20 months.
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