actually are in human testing, we ve completed a study of over 500 people with this booster and we will have those data soon, but i think more importantly this is a booster vaccine that is really very similar to spike vax that we ve used in hundreds of millions of people around the world, it just has the messenger rna added to it the ba.4, 5, so it s very similar. i think we can safely and effectively protect people with this booster and we should all feel confident. let s talk about when people should be getting this booster. a lot of people were fully vaccinated and boosted last fall, some people may or may have not had covid in the interim. when should they be getting this booster? yeah. so, look, clearly this is a virus that continues to evolve and mutate and that s why people need boosting, because it s now escaping the antibodies that the original vaccine was able to generate for us all.
cutter went some place else to gas up. nonetheless, china flexing their muscle. newt, thank you very much for joining us on this monday morning. thank you. glad to do it. steve: you bet it. a quarter before the top of the hour on this monday and ashley joins us with news of a 6-year-old. ashley: going to start with this. horrifying doorbell camera footage shows a brave little 6-year-old girl escaping attempted kidnapping. the girl was taking out the trash when the man approached her and grabbed her arm. her mother, joining fox & friends first earlier with this message for other parents. i let them know about stranger danger, you know, this can happen in an instant, in a blink of an eye. luckily that sweet little girl says she is okay after this terrifying incident, the fda is set to roll out another covid-19 booster shot for newer strains of the omicron variant this week. this before the agency has even completed human testing. the fbi won t rely on older data
i think they re basing it on what we do with influenza vaccines which is we have a lot of experience with the technology and so each new flu strain, each new flu vaccine is tailor made to the variants that are around at this time, and thinking that we have enough experience over decades to administer on a yearly basis without doing additional human testing. i understand that. my issue with mrna vaccines is still relatively new. we don t nearly have that wealth of experience. so i agree we absolutely need boosters, adults over the age of 50 will eventually need third boosters, we need fifth immunizations. those under 50 will need second immunizations as boosters. the question is whether we move forward with the original lineage or pair those together. that will be under discussion at the acip meeting at the cdc. yeah. and dr. paul affett on the fda