there s really no down side to getting started on the vaccination regimen, whether your child is 6 months old or 4 to 5 months old, it s waiting for a little bit more safety data and effectiveness data whether they should get a third dose and the fda will eventually review that as well. thank you so much for joining us on this welcome news for so many parents out there. and yet another winter storm is expected to impact much of the country this week. prepare now because a 2,000-mile-long icy corridor, you heard that right, is expected to hit more than 35 million people starting tomorrow. weather alerts in effect from missouri to ohio. the storm could cause widespread power outages and major disruptions in travel. the national archives confirms donald trump ripped up
vaccination regimen for children of that age group, namely six months to four years plus up to five will be a three-dose regimen. what had happened is that it was hopeful that a two-dose regimen would be able to do it. as the data began coming in, it became clear that they wanted to continue with the three-dose study before making any determination about the efficacy. there s no doubt about the safety. the one thing you don t want to confuse parents is they think there s something here that there s a concern about safety. it s not a safety concern. they re accumulating data rapidly on the three-dose regimen. that will be presented to the fda, the fda will do what they usually do, scrutinize it carefully and then make a determination as to what the recommendation is, what dose and what dose regimen.
original vaccination regimen. if it is an mrna and two months or longer if it s a j&j. if you re not vaccinated and you get a negative covid test, are you good for indoor gatherings? you know, it depends. if you have a pcr test and you re talking about worrying about infecting others, if you re negative and you go indoors, you have a risk of getting infected if there are people there infected and not wearing masks. that s the reason why whatever your situation is, you should be wearing a mask with indoor congregate settings when you don t know the vaccination status of the people that you re congregating with indoors. if you want to see people who are in a higher covid or hot spot area and you re vaccinated, are you good to go travel there? you know, nothing is 100% risk free, ari.
way as they did before and hopefully we ll get a recommendation that would provide equity among people who have had different products in their vaccination regimen. the brazilian president who is currently in the united states for the united nations general assembly in new york says he doesn t need to get vaccinated because he previously had the coronavirus and says his immune system is strong enough. what do you say to that argument? well, there is some truth to that in the fact that people who are vaccinated excuse me, who have gotten infected and recover do have a degree of protection. what we don t know, wolf, is what the duration of that protection is and what the range of protection against variants are, so you don t want to deny that there is certain protection by people who are previously vaccinated. what we do know that s really sporin if you vaccinate people who have recovered from getting infected, that you boost up their level of immunity very
this was a recent piece in lancet echoing things that w.h.o. had said, calling for moratorium on boosting until the benefits of primary vaccination have been made available to more people around the world. this is a compelling issue, particularly as currently available evidence does not show the need for widespread use of booster vaccination in populations that have received an effective primary vaccination regimen. that consideration is outside of the fda s portfolio, correct? like they re making this solely based on the data? yeah. the fda really just rules on safety and effectiveness of the vaccines. they re not in the business of making broader public health recommendations. you know, are these vaccine doses best used here in the united states or are they best used around the world, that s really not their mandate. so they really just ruled specifically on the data, looking at was there an increased risk of severe disease, hospitalization and death, and in which populations.