unclear. by the way, we still have a testing shortage for those who need it quickly. joining me now is andy slavit. i was talking to a former public health official for a fairly large state earlier today who is of the mind basically wondering what more can be done. what s realistic given our environment, our political divide, given the public s exhaustion. and i m curious before i get into some specifics about whether it s time to deal with this as an endemic, is there something we haven t tried that you think we should? well, a lot does rest on today s court case, because i think this is the most forceful and by the way, lawful steps to basically protect the american public. mark mcclelen and i co-authored a piece on this very topic in
single dose vaccine. the fda just said it can be stored for 4 1/2 months. that s 6 weeks longer than previously allowed. the news comes days after ohio warned some 200,000 j&j shots would soon expire. and wolf, just one other note on that johnson & johnson vaccine. a member of j&j s board, dr. mark mcclelen, telling cnn today the reasons they don t know how long this vaccine can be stored is because frankly everything s happened so quickly as part of this emergency, but he did say those studies are ongoing. let s discuss all of this with a key member of the fda s vaccine advisory committee. he was in today s meeting. dr. paul offit, thanks so much for joining us. take us inside the deliberations today. are you confident that american children under the age of 12