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[inaudible] mrna pfizer. >> so i just want to make it really clear, we have not changed our policy as a health department and as a city with regard to following cdc guidelines for administering vaccines. if people have received a johnson and johnson and are requesting a second shot, we will accommodate them, but our policy has not changed nor has it changed at zuckerberg general hospital. >> have there been studies on that? >> yes. so in consultation with infectious disease experts, the decision was made again. if people are requesting a second shot after johnson and johnson, we will accommodate that, be but we're not changing our policy at this point. >> any indication it does improve the efficacy of the johnson and johnson shot? >> i think the important thing is right now we don't have conclusive data on additional shots beyond what the cdc is recommending. but, again, in consultation with infectious disease experts, we do think this is safe and accommodate people if they so request. >> break through cases, are they mostly people who have been vaccinated with johnson and johnson or

currently, supplemental vaccination, that would be third doses of the mrna pfizer or moderna are only available to people who are immunocompromised. the recommendation is people should first cult consult with their health care provider to see if an additional dose is safe for them. san francisco is not providing extra doses of the pfizer and johnson & johnson vaccine. however, the health sites are providing a dose of mrna vaccine for those who received a single dose of j & j vaccine. the recommendation for roll call is eight months after an individual's first shot. there is not word at the present time whether there be mass sites or clinics available. it is obviously a work in progress, and we'll keep you posted once we hear anything. finally, i think our biggest update is that the city is returning to work, meaning returning to the actual buildings, on november 1st, now that the f.d.a. has approved the vaccine. the city is requiring all city employees to get vaccinated. it will definitely reflect the new norm and be a hybrid model with people coming into the office at 40% of the time

a question to the advisory committee about whether we would endorse a third booster dose of the pfizer mrna of age and up that question received a majority of no as votes. i think around a margin of 17 no to 4 yes and then the question got rephrased. we partnered with fda to rephrase the question for 65 years of age and up, and other individuals at risk for severe covid and that passed overwhelmingly as a yes. >> you know, there were, of course, some people that thought that was the wrong decision. why right now are for most of americans a lower risk group under the age of 65, don't have some kind of serious como comorbidity, why is that the right decision now, doctor >> as we make these decisions, look, the fact is that vaccines you're giving to healthy people. so safety has to come first. there simply wasn't a lot of safety data presented to us by the sponsor. in this case pfizer. for the younger age groups particularly in populations here in the united states we anticipate, as more data come available in the coming weeks and months, that this question about third booster doses for the pf

animal studies, the animals died because it was proven to be one of the secret ingredients of the pfizer mrnaaccine for moderna. host: that is robert this morning. this is jeff from brandywine, maryland. supports the vaccine mandate. good morning. caller: i am in support of it. i am glad president biden has taken a stronger stance. the unfortunate part with all of this is that just last year, just to remind the american people, we did not have a vaccine and the scientists got together and worked diligently to get something to save the american people and save the global community. here is the thing, i am hoping he continues along this line. if i were biden, i would keep going. if people want to be that stern and come up with every plan for every opinion to oppose this, then there is no more i can do for you. as american people, we have to keep going forward and realize that when the doctors and the fda recently approved it across the board, then the motive on the opposing side's we say blue, they say gray. to keep going back and forth. children are going to suffer. keep that in mind. those wh

they have been doing boosted and giving second dose is with mrna vaccines, specifically pfizer.is not currently recommended in the u.s.. there are new data from pfizer that is got sent to the fda this week, and similarly, moderna has also filed for extending to a third dose. you know, it is hard to say. if you are at really high risk, mixing and matching won't be the end of the world, but it is not currently recommended. >> what about the standard for when people are considered fully vaccinated? will it become three instead of two? in 6 to 8 months, will that be the new standard? >> i don't think so. i think we will keep having a standard of two shots, to be considered fully vaccinated, or one shot of johnson & johnson. at least in terms of proof of vaccination. i don't see that changing. there's no guidance on it yet, but i would be very surprised if it were to change. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> you bet. take care. >>> the remaining migrants who had been camped under a bridge at the texas border town of del rio have been cleared out. this is what it looks like now,

astrazeneca which is very similar to johnson & johnson, and for the second job they used an mrna vaccine like pfizer or moderna. so, we may see the cdc say if you got moderna, you can get pfizer. if you got pfizer you can get moderna if you got j&j, you can get moderna or pfizer. that, again, we will just have to wait. something about waiting, i know that i got moderna and i would like to know what the cdc and fda will recommend and people who got j&j feel the same way but remember that we got really good protection against what we really care about which is hospitalization and death. we have that protection right now. so, continue to do the nonpharmaceutical interventions like masking and social distancing and not getting together in big crowds until you hear about what the recommendations are for the next round with moderna and johnson & johnson. >> okay, thank you so much for your insights and for joining us this evening. >> you are welcome, thank you. struck a warriors star is at the center of drama around the covenant vaccine. andrew wiggins and his vaccination status is a big part of warriors

pfizer or johnson & johnson. that assessment was based on the largest u.s. study to date involving about 32,000 patients. >>> and a third study looked at the effectiveness of the two mrnacines, pfizer and moderna. that report found those vaccines were 87% effective in preventing hospitalizations and remained highly effective even during delta's predominance. >>> a new york hospital is pausing maternity staffing over some quitting. it is said it can no longer proceed with delivering babies in a safe manner. the hospital said the maternity unity already has staff shortages with at least six resignations so far and has received pushback from additional employees who express and unwillingness to be vaccinated. under the state law, the first deadline is september 27th. medical exemptions are made for those who are allergic or who have had adverse reactions to vaccines. >>> more than a dozen governors, all republicans, are pushing back on the requirements, despite a recent drop in covid cases. nbc news correspondent morgan chesky has more. >> reporter: growing backlash over president biden's mandate, at least 19 governors denouncing the rule, announcing businesses with at le

i think the evidence really is that the mrna vaccines, moderna, pfizer are holding up quite well. i don't know that the difference between moderna and pfizer is clinically that meaningful. johnson & johnson coming in lower, concerning. i think we have to think about how we protect people with johnson & johnson and whether they need an extra shot sometimes soon. >> you bring up the issue of boosters. cdc said these studies found vaccine effectiveness wanes more among older adults, which is not entirely surprising given age and the fact that they were among the first to get vaccinated. we heard the cdc director say she expects the standard for fully vaccinated -- the definition in this country, might actually change. when you heard that, does that mean fully vaccinated could one day include this additional shot, the booster once it's authorized? >> yeah, so, we do have vaccines that are three doses in order to be fully vaccinated, hepatitis b, for instance. right now two doses offer a high protection but i would not be surprised if over the next months, coming year, we have three sh

might very well be able to have a major boost, one that could last for quite some time for the mrna vaccine, pfizerthink the same thing now as the j&j data would show us is two doses for that vaccine are really going to give us the ideal response. >> this study also found that a 12fold increase in antibodies after a booster shot six months or longer after the first dose. what should people do? people who got the j&j shot and are wondering if they need a booster. >> well, at this point, you know, i hate to say wait to get the direction from the cdc's advisory committee immunization practices, but that's what we want to do. they're meeting tomorrow, friday. we're going see some very important information coming out that will say exactly what to do. so wait until then. but i can give you i think a sense that yes, particularly if you're older, you are going to be recommended to get a booster, even with the j&j vaccine. >> as we await the fda's final decision on booster shots, doctor, do you expect that they'll do anything other than adopt the recommendations for a limited roll-out? >> i don't think so.

the safeguarding of the world is dependent on their technology d pfizer's scaling up massively. mrnanes are our insurance against variants and production failures and our most hopeful way to get the world through this disaster. william: i want to get back to the pharmaceutical companies and a second, but back to the president. too little too late, what do you want him to be doing? >> credit where credit is due. the u.s. is donating hundreds of millions ofoses, they are accelerating the schedule. they are funding the delivery of vaccines, education administration programs, not just dumping them and hoping it will work out. that is very important. the real challenge is that there are too few doses being produced. we are likely to have a real shortage of the most effective vaccines through 2022 and because of that, we will have more risk of dangerous variants, slower recovery of travel and trade, more political instability, and millions of lives lost that could be saved. william: in the past, you have been critical of the pharmaceutical companies. you said, people are dying because of t

if you look at the dose of moderna, it was about three times the dose that pfizer mrna.what they were trying to determine is could they get a similar effect by going down on the dose. studies have been done with both the 100 milligram dose as well as the half dose, sorry, microgram. 1000 micrograms opposed to a half dose. they will make that determination. the fda will do what they do very well and when they cop out with their authorization for the appropriate dose, that is what should be followed. i don't see any issue of safety there. >> in terms of the virus, yesterday you said we were turning the corner a little bit. and the numbers bear that out. the average number of cases have fallen 30%. unlike last fall and winter we have 55 pakistan of the population fully vaccinated. do you see us approaching the end of the fight? >> the word potentially is the critical word. we have in our power to be able to to do that. it looks like there is a trnd down in both cases and hospital sdpags. there is a lagging indicator of deaths. i would assume that if things go the way we hav

[inaudible] mrna pfizer. >> so i just want to make it really clear, we have not changed our policy asdepartment and as a city with regard to following cdc guidelines for administering vaccines. if people have received a johnson and johnson and are requesting a second shot, we will accommodate them, but our policy has not changed nor has it changed at zuckerberg general hospital. >> have there been studies on that? >> yes. so in consultation with infectious disease experts, the decision was made again. if people are requesting a second shot after johnson and johnson, we will accommodate that, be but we're not changing our policy at this point. >> any indication it does improve the efficacy of the johnson and johnson shot? >> i think the important thing is right now we don't have conclusive data on additional shots beyond what the cdc is recommending. but, again, in consultation with infectious disease experts, we do think this is safe and accommodate people if they so request. >> break through cases, are they mostly people who have been vaccinated with johnson and johnson or why johnso

another study looked at the effectiveness of two mrna vaccines, pfizer and moderna.t report found those vaccines were 87% effective in preventing hospitalizations and remained highly effective even during the spread of delta. it's numbers like that which are behind president biden's push to get more of the country vaccinated. but there is growing political opposition to the vaccine mandates that the president announced last week. nbc news correspondent morgan chesky has more on the more than dozen governors, all republicans, who are pushing back on those requirements. >> reporter: growing backlash over president biden's vaccine mandate. at least 19 republican governors denouncing the rule, requiring businesses with at least 100 employees to make covid shots mandatory or offer weekly testing. >> the president's actions in a mandate harkens the resistance. >> reporter: florida governor ron desantis promising a fight. >> people should not be cast aside because they make a medical decision for themselves. >> reporter: president biden calling opposition cavalier, adding a

a robust immune response, and there were no cases of mi yor c -- myocarditis, linked to mrna vaccines. the pfizer company says they are going to submit the data to the fda soon for emergency use authorization but of course the big question is as you say, what is the timing here, so we heard from scott gottlieb earlier today that estimated this, he's the former head of the fda, take a listen to what he said! depending on how long the fda takes to review the application, whether it's a four week review or six week review, you could have a vaccine available to children as early as probably by the end of october. perhaps it slips a little bit into november. >> so obviously here that would be ideal, end of october, early november, but i also want to break down a little bit more for reference here. take a look at this. this is the time line that we saw when the vaccine was put out under emergency use authorization for 12 to 15-year-olds. march 31st, pfizer announced the top line results. that of course what we're seeing today. then a week and a half later on april 9th, actually submitted that data to t

he says the pfizer and moderna mrna vaccines are new technology, while sinovac uses traditional technologyuses an inactive sars-cov-2 virus. scientists say the chinese company over-inactivated the virus, decreasing its efficacy. >> i think the thing we have to understand is that all covid vaccines are not created equal. it's a very old-school technology, and it turns out that it just doesn't generate the same level of immune responses. but particularly, as the coronavirus has changed and evolved ov time with these new variants of concern. >> schifrin: in april, china's top disease control official admitted chinese vaccines quot“" don't have high protection rates.” but earlier this month, chinese officials claimed the vaccine was effective against delta in preventing severe cases and deh. >> ( translated ): the current vaccines remain effective agait all variants of the virus. >> schifrin: dr. dicky budiman is an epidemiologist at griffith university in australia, and advised the indonesian government. >> indonesia has 270 million population. even the commitment from china is not even fit w

this data says that even after the second full dose of the mrna vaccine, moderna or pfizer, that afterer of months, the immune protection starts to wane and drop. we are worried about that. i think that tony fauci is saying something that is entirely valid. that is, let's get ahead of. this let's not wait for people who have been immune to become non immune. that means let's give a big boost right now, or as soon as we can, to everybody that has been two dose immunized to date. the moral dilemma here is that, we talked about this before, the world health organization, w.h.o., is also very concerned that we are indulging ourselves. in having a third dose. when there are so many countries that do not have a vaccine to vaccinate one or two of the percent of the population. but i think the scientific validity -- our >> guest tonight, irwin redlener, thank you for our time or for taking our questions. coming up for, us as for tonight, it's more difficult for many texans to vote. full stop. we will ask susan glasser and peter baker what happens now. r what happens now hey, i just got a text

concern, with data from israel that says that even after the second full dose of the mrna vaccine, moderna or pfizerter some number of months, protection starts to drop. and we're worried about that. and i think that tony fauci is saying something that is entirely valid. let's get ahead of this. let's not wait for people to become non-immune. let's give a big boost right now, or as soon as we can to everybody that has been two-dose immunized to date. the dilemma is, the world health organization is also very concerned that we're indulging ourselves in a third dose when there are so many countries around the world that don't have enough vaccine. we have a lot of variables to weigh. but i think the scientific validity of what fauci was saying is -- >> doctor, thank you very much as always for your time and for taking our questions. >>> coming up for us, as of tonight, it's more difficult for many texans to vote. full stop. we'll ask susan glasser and peter baker what happens now. earn at the end of their first year automatically woo! i got my mo-ney! it's hard to contain yourself isn't it? uh- huh! we

anthony fauci says he believes three doses of an mrna covid vaccine like pfizer or moderna will becomethe norm at some poi the white house is still aiming for a september 20 timeline to begin rolling out booster shots, but found she says we need to do more to convince millions of unvaccinated americans to skip the first shot. >> when you give the person the third boost, you dramatically increase the level of protection even more so than before the boosting goes up to and beyond the level of protection. so i believe strongly that ultimately we are going to see that as the proper regimen, three doses of an mrna. we have 75 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated and who are not yet vaccinated. if we get the overwhelming majority of those people vaccinated, we can turn this around. larry: except, we are not turning around now. the numbers are not looking great. california's top doctors are concerned about a possible fifth wave following a busy labor day weekend. >> this is not the time to throw up your arms and dance for joy that this is gone. it isn't. it is goin

host: you're talking about the mrna vaccines? pfizer and moderna? caller: yes, it is gene therapy.ou are familiar with what is going on in america. things are getting redefined left and right to make it sound like it is palatable. host: dan, do you think employers should define a condition of employment as getting a shot, getting a covid shot? caller: i think there needs to be more information about what is actually happening, john. likes several callers have already said, natural immunity is much stronger. this is coming out now. it came out in israel, it is coming out in harvard. host: and that was the point was made in the news conference. he did not think they took into account the natural immunity people have already had. caller: that's right. do you know what that makes it look like to the population of people that are actually paying attention? oh, you cut me off? host: i did not cut you off. caller: i'm sorry. just think all these people who got covid, i know several who got covid early, and they ultimately fought getting the vaccine and their employers put so much pressure

moderna had a higher amount of mrna things in the vaccine compared to pfizer. and this was i believe might be the clincher, is that a ration between shots. pfizer, three weeks, moderna, four weeks, we know from the uk that when they had to give an interval of even as long as eight weeks to 12 weeks between doses, that the people got a later shot for their second shot, tended to have more antibodies. the cdc studies changing all these antibodies studies into actual hospitalization outcomes. >> it's pretty nuanced. we got to ask you about president biden's push to get all governors to get teachers vaccinated because the younger kids can't get the shots yet. some parents pushing for going back to remote learning. is that something we will be facing if teachers and older students don't get vaccinated and we don't get approval for younger kids? >> definitely. i have lots of thoughts on that, but, in terms of good news scenarios, san francisco department of public health released data yesterday showing that there was zero interschool transmissions, even though kids w

it would have been optimal to get at least with the mrna's to get both pfizer and moderna to roll outrogram at the same time simultaneously. it looks now, it is possible, and i think likely, that you will see pfizer get ruled out, get rolled out first because the data that they submitted to the fda. remember, you've got to get approval. all of this, jim, and we said this from the very beginning is contingent on the fda regulatory approval, and the recommendation of the advisory committee and immunization practices to the cdc. pfizer has gotten those data into the fda. they're going over it now. i think they're going to be on time. moderna may be a bit behind but not much. so i think that you're going to get both of them out. they may not be absolutely simultaneously. but it's going to be close. >> by the end of this month. >> i would hope so. they're probably no more than a couple of weeks behind, if that much. >> okay. big picture, there's a question now, you're familiar with this, about is there a point where we begin to live with covid-19 to some degree, that it becomes less of a p

currently, supplemental vaccination, that would be third doses of the mrna pfizer or moderna are onlyomised. the recommendation is people should first cult consult with their health care provider to see if an additional dose is safe for them. san francisco is not providing extra doses of the pfizer and johnson & johnson vaccine. however, the health sites are providing a dose of mrna vaccine for those who received a single dose of j & j vaccine. the recommendation for roll call is eight months after an individual's first shot. there is not word at the present time whether there be mass sites or clinics available. it is obviously a work in progress, and we'll keep you posted once we hear anything. finally, i think our biggest update is that the city is returning to work, meaning returning to the actual buildings, on november 1st, now that the f.d.a. has approved the vaccine. the city is requiring all city employees to get vaccinated. it will definitely reflect the new norm and be a hybrid model with people coming into the office at 40% of the time, about two days a week. h.s.h. held a t

wants to know if you have two moderna shots or two pfizer shots, should the booster be something else? i don't know if he means the j&j or another mrna the advice from the cdc and fda will be to stick with the same company. pfizer says, let's try to keep my shot for the booster. the fda says, we can't keep it. that's why you won't see guidance. biologically, it is going to be fine to mix and match if you want to use another booster. there is data showing that it is fine. kristen: we are hearing that moderna is working on a combined the flu and covid vaccine. what do you know about that? do you think that will become the norm? >> i think multiplex vaccines have been something that actually before covid was a thing that people had done. you get a lot of good stuff in one shot. if you do that, that gives a company a marketing edge. take the last minute we have remaining and talk about what you've seen in the month that school has been back in session and what seems to be working and not working. >> there's a big difference between the rest of the country and the bay area. overall, we've seen these scary headlines, 240% increase in cases

those are mostly toward the pfizer and moderna shots, mrna-based. shery: kara wetzel. get to first word news with vonnie quinn. vonnie: chair powell says they could scale back assets in november and complete the process by mid 2022. he left the door open to wait longer if needed and stressed tapering was not meant to start the countdown to lift off from zero interest rates. the fed dot plot reveals an inclination from officials to raise rates next year. >> we continue to expect it to contain the current zero took one quarter percent -- to one quarter percent, and continued with maximum employment and inflation has risen to 2% and on track to exceed for some time. vonnie: china announced plans to improve intellectual pop -- property protections including boosting compensations for losses with violations. social media will accelerate data, artificial intelligence. washington also accused beijing of hacking. taiwan has applied to join a specific trade deal china -- days after china sent its own request to be part of the agreement. the application was sent to new zealand.

conducting an independent evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of the third dose of the pfizer and moderna mrna vaccines. based on a review of the evidence. that is what he said when this announcement was made. if you look on the flipside of this, at the time they made this announcement in part because there was data available that showed that the waiting of efficacy of vaccines over a period of time. that is what these doctors and medical experts in their statement made this recommendation. the alternative would have been they not move forward and hold back and not share the data. that is also not being transparent or leading with science. that is the course of history i should say. reporter: you said it's the top health officials of the administration, the fda commissioner, cdc, all agree and recommend the american public should be getting boosters starting next week. but the advisory committee and the cdc advisory committee are on a different page, saying they don't think boosters should be ready at this time. who is the ministration going to listen to, the top doctors or the outside advisor

host: you're talking about the mrna vaccines? pfizer and moderna? caller: yes, it is gene therapy.ou are familiar with what is going on in america. things are getting redefined left and right to make it sound like it is palatable. host: dan, do you think employers should define a condition of employment as getting a shot, getting a covid shot? caller: i think there needs to be more information about what is actually happening, john. likes several callers have already said, natural immunity is much stronger. this is coming out now. it came out in israel, it is coming out in harvard. host: and that was the point was made in the news conference. he did not think they took into account the natural immunity people have already had. caller: that's right. do you know what that makes it look like to the population of people that are actually paying attention? oh, you cut me off? host: i did not cut you off. caller: i'm sorry. just think all these people who got covid, i know several who got covid early, and they ultimately fought getting the vaccine and their employers put so much pressure

make the shots available for many countries who didn't have access to the more potent mrna shot that came from pfizerh. it is those areas that are now looking to get some of these western vaccines that seem to have higher efficacy rates. shery: does that mean those mrna vaccines are now more available to those countries? because there was a reason the chinese vaccines were used, even though they were not as effective, right? >> there were two things going on early in the pandemic. number one, any fracturing just wasn't fully -- manufacturing just wasn't fully ramped up yet. early on, the manufacturing just wasn't as great as it is now. there was also the other element of the entire world being unvaccinated. you had countries like the u.s. and the u.k. in many places in europe that were keeping all the vaccine that it was producing. we saw the same thing in india. while there was production happening, those charts were not able to get to some of these other places, specifically developing countries and places that couldn't pay as much or perhaps were relying on covax donations. they just didn't come i

protection that is either equal or superior for a period of time versus two doses of the mrna vaccines which are like pfizerccine and we are mandating that. so what this does is to defer individuals who wish to take some more time to make that decision based on the evidence that we have to do so. brian: dr. jahre, you are not doing them a favor. you are actually following the science. you have natural immunity. that is as good. >> that's correct. brian: as a vaccine. i thought that's a given for experts like you. why are you in a category of your own in doing this? >> why is this a story? >> well, we are hoping that i'm not in a category or we are not in a category of our own. and we are constantly looking at the data. and we are willing to change our mind as the data necessitates. and i think that's important for all of us to do and not be wedded to a single position. i also want to make sure that people don't misconstrue this as a license to go get the natural infection versus actually getting the vaccine. we are very committed to giving the vaccine and, in fact, there is some evidence that if you get a s

have the scope and scale to pull it out or go with the private stuff and find a way and pfizer is an obvious one, mrnaut it's programable medicine. adaptive biotechnologies is another one you're talking about immunosequencing a term most people have never heard of but imagine being able to program your body's own response to disease. i think we're going to beat things like cancer and immune suppressants and finally rocket labs which takes you out into space we'll need a whole lot of data and this company is putting satellites up helping make all this possible. charles: you know, it really is amazing, now that list, we flashed it up twice in this show some of the things look really like okay maybe one day probably never but some are i think lower hanging fruit, bionics, these machines that already help people, ocean caltech caltech i've been trying to make money for over a decade, mostly i lose but i've been trying sooner or later these things happen what do you think? >> you have to play the odds. that's the great part about investing because this is truly one of those circumstances, where it's very h

sanofi dropping plans to develop its own mrna covid vaccine due to the dominance of pfizer and moderna shares right now as you can see down ever so slightly, about a tenth of a percent, as those still playing catchup in the vaccine race free fall on the news, by a medical down 4.5, novavax also down more than 10% meanwhile, pfizer and bioncaltech a covid vaccine safe for children, the two this morning submitting trial data children age 5-11 they've submitted that to regulators and also confirming that they be applying for emergency use authorization for their vaccine for kids in the next few weeks that move as you can see not doing a whole lot to boost shares, pfizer down three-quarters of a percent bion tech down 8.5% now to the auto industry and in particular ford motor company getting a charge after mounting plans to build an electric f-150 assembly plant along with three battery factories, ford along with korean battery partner sk innovation will invest $11.4 billion to build its first new assembly plant in decades which would create 11,000 new jobs and provide batteries for 1 mill

. >> pfizer one of the companies with the mrna has gotten the information has been examined and things look like they're ready to go. moderna might be behind that and if they are what you might see is rather than the simultaneous rolling out of the booster program of both dose products, you may be sec -- sequential. >> and they've been keeping track of how people are doing in israel. l look's look at their booster rollout. they began july 30th. anyone is eligible at five months past the second shot, it doesn't matter how old you are, in a study of people ages 60 plus, it shows that the booster reduced the relative risk of severe illness more than 10 times. poppy. >> elizabeth, thank you. obviously following and watching very closely what happens in israel as more people get the boosters. >>> more than half of the nation's schools have part-time nurses or no nurse at all and the ongoing shortage is turning dire as children go back to the classroom and as covid cases are also rising now among kids. the cdc said hospitalization rates for children have soared this summer as the delta varia

. >> we saw pfizer, moderna with their vaccines that are based on mrna technology.his came from oncology, did it not? >> it is about the mapping of the human genome. it is understanding the biology of disease and designing therapies that are able to address those diseases. it all comes from the same source which is dna. >> thank you. course still to come, a look at some of the top recommendations across markets, meantime, up for a second day, higher by 7%. we know that singapore is still struggling with those covid cases, the highest since the pandemic. the government has not blinked just yet. keep it here with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. microsoft is scrapping a plan to fully reopen its headquarters by october 4, saying it cannot longer provide a date because of the covid-19. the company will move to a 30 day transition, providing time to prepare for its offices to reopen. they are dropping social distancing rules in the london office and returning to full occupancy starting next week. an internal memo says abou

holding up a little bit better and part of the reason may be because there is more mrna in the vaguen t vaccine than the pfizery spaced about an extra week apart. so that may account. moderna has applied for a third immunization, as well. and the vrpc will continue that, separately. i also think we will be looking at a second dose of the j&j vaccine which i always looking at the data early on from the phase one and phase two data, i always thought that was a two-dose vaccine, as well. >> yeah. hey. listen. i hate to give this short trip but this is the last question. i hear people and it -- it just -- it disturbs me because i want people to be informed when they say this -- this vaccine is new and whatever. the mrna technology is not a new technology, right? this is something that has been worked on for a while. maybe -- covid -- covid-19 vaccine, right, because it's novel, was a novel virus, it's new. but the technology through which this was developed is not something that was developed overnight. >> well, there is two pieces to this. first of all, you know, we have been working on coronavirus vaccines for o

basically the rha said pfizer, madonna and astrazeneca were all used as boosterjabs but thejcvi said that based on new data, the mrna put it, to keep the lid on covid, because there is a lot facing the nhs this winter. . ~' , ., , there is a lot facing the nhs this winter. . ,, , ., , . ~ . winter. thank you very much, anna. let me just — winter. thank you very much, anna. let me just tell _ winter. thank you very much, anna. let me just tell you, _ winter. thank you very much, anna. let me just tell you, having - winter. thank you very much, anna. let me just tell you, having seen i let me just tell you, having seen that briefing, that at around 12:30pm, the health secretary sajid javid will outline the government's plans to deal with coronavirus over the autumn and winter months, and we will bring you that live as well. but right now i am joined by kevin courtney. kevin courtney isjoint general secretary of the national education union. we are talking about the news that children aged 12 to 15 will be offered a single vaccine dose from next week, and broadly, are you happy about this plan, kevin? itrefoil. happy a

what has happened is that pfizer, one of the companies that had the mrna has gotten the information and been examined and things look like they are ready to go. moderna might be a bit behind that. if they are, what you might see is rather than the simultaneous rolling out of the booster program of both those products, i don't think that is a major issue there but we would have like to have seen it happen all together simultaneously. >> can you mix and match or is it better to wait? >> it's better to wait. we are looking at mix and match studies now. we'll have all the necessary information in a few weeks. it may not be exactly on the week of september 20th. it will be very soon thereafter. >> okay. a lot of people out there trying to diy this as you may understand. the surgeon general said the threshold for boosters was significant increase and breakthrough infections and hospitalizations and deaths. is there evidence of significant increase in these breakthrough hospitalizations and deaths and can you pointtous that evidence? are you seeing that? >> you look at the evidence from the co

>> yeah, great question e so what they have seen in -- with the mrna vaccines in particular, this is the moderna and pfizer vaccine, that there are rare side effects of what is called myocarditis inflammation of the heart muscle that might sound worrisome. good news these cases are typically mild and these cases usually resolve without much treatment. kids do fine. what's interesting, bret, when you look at kids who get covid, their risk of having myocarditis is markedly higher than kids who get the vaccine plus a long list of other complications from the virus. >> bret: talking about the virus here. do we have to worry about this must variant? >> so the mu variant. we are seeing very little mute in the country right now. the delta variant is b dominant, 99% of what we are dealing woman of achievement where we have to keep our focus. >> bret: mr. secretary, a lot of parents think it's matter of time before the schools lock down again before kicked out. here is two mothers, jazmine and stacey talking about that. >> i'm totally worried there is more lockdowns to come. i'm not worried about it i anticipate it

, and i think the important thing to understand is when we look at third doses for the mrna vaccine with the pfizerk a punch with a third dose, that's going to take us to a new level protection that we can potentially expect to last for quite some time and be effective. >> doctor, we have grown to expect lies and conspiracy theories on forces on the internet and qanon and from chinese religious cults that have websites that are fronts for them for the united states. i do wonder how concerned you are when a doctor of the united states senate is going on right-wing talk shows and lying to americans saying 18 years old faced little to no risk from covid-19 but faced a great risk by taking a vaccine. >> joe, this is a challenge that obviously we have been doing since the beginning of this pandemic. first of all, i would say that doctor hopefully does not have his medical license. it should be revolted because of the danger of those kinds of discussions. many cases is not enough. right now i am very concerned. we are at the lowest level of new people getting vaccinated in the last four months. if you lo

whenever the main secret ingredients of the pfizer and mrna vaccines from moderna are fatal to animalsst: this is jeff and brandywine whose parts the vexing -- in brandywine who supports the vexing. -- the vaccine. caller: just last year, just to remind the american people, you not have a vaccine -- we did not have a vaccine. the scientists got together and worked diligently to get something to save the american people into the global community. i am hoping he continues along this line. if i was biden, i would keep going. you want to be that stern and come up with every plan to oppose this. there is no more i can do with you. we have to keep going forward, and realize when doctors and the fda approved it across the board, we say blue, they say gray. at the end of the day, children are going to suffer. those who oppose, when your kid, when it comes to not having a vaccine, then i'll of a sudden it is going to hit you, what has happened on television. people say " i oppose it," then they get hit by the virus. host: that is jeff in maryland. this is marlene, minnesota, on the line for tho

>> we do have the data that pfizer submitted, and moderna is omitting that to the fda. we do know that in the mrna vaccines, there is a possibility of myocarditis and pericarditis. the average age is age to 26 to 30, so some adolescents could get it, but it targets older people mostly. and most of them it is reversible. it is very rare. >> we are waiting for pfizer to submit its findings on the children younger than 12. once the fda approves the vaccine for that age group, do you think we will see more mandates for the smaller kids? >> definitely. again, it is part of the culture of schools. it's part of the culture of vulnerable populations, just like in the healthcare field. the school is no different, and wanting to have a safe environment, so parents feel comfortable and confident in >> we are also following the developing news today about booster shots for those 65 and older. what is your opinion on the booster shots? do you think they are a good idea? do you think they will hit the general public as well? >> definitely. we have had booster shots, again, in the history of vaccines. mmr, hepat

we know that the efficacy of the mrna vaccines do appear to wane over several months. the pfizer data subtles that the efficacy of that vaccine declines about 6% every two months. we started vaccinating people almost nine months ago. data out of israel suggests that the highest risk for severe infection as the efficacy wanes is in people over the age of 60. and booster data from israel suggests that once you start boosting folks, the neutralizing antib antibody htiters rise dramatically. it's the movement. i think what we're going to hear from the fda advisory committee is a go ahead to boost people over the age probably of 60, because that's where the data is most solid. the question is what does this really mean for people who are younger? and do we need to start boosting them now? and we probably have some time to wait, because we didn't start boosting younger people until the spring. and many of those folks will still have relatively high levels of neutralizing antibodies? >> that makes sense. i'm hearing you say there's a lot of data that suggests that there is a positive im

. >> pfizer one of the companies that has the mrna has gotten the information and has been examined and things look like that they are ready to go. moderna might be actually a little bit behind that. and if they are, what you might see a rather than the simultaneous rolling out of the booster promi er products, it m sequintal t tal by a week or tw. >> and what is going on here is that there is an excellent chance that starting the week of september 20th, that folks who got pfizer will be able to start getting their boosters. it will be in age groups or groupings, but folks who got mod is more of a question mark. >> and so they are closely watching the data. obviously israel has been giving booster shots. what do we know from that country? >> right. so israel has been giving booster shots for weeks now. in fact anyone ages 12 and older can thousand get a booster shot and it is happening very commonly. and so they actually have data. it is interesting that the u.s. a much larger country has less data than this little tiny country in the middle east. so let's take a look at what israel has

remember, the initial phase 3 trials of the mrna vaccines were in 30,000 for moderna. 44,000 people for pfizer. the phase 3 trial for three doses was in 306 people so i think we really do need to test the water with one foot as we move forward. >> so there were some dramatic twists, so to speak, as far as these panels go. you voted unanimously eventually to limit the scope as you mentioned recommending booster shots for those 65 and older and at high risk. what was different about that group specifically and then what's your advice for those people who could soon be eligible? >> right, i think also again as we said in the preliminary here is that we're an advisory body. we give advice to the fda, the fda then will presumably take that advice and then -- but the fda is a regulatory agency, not a recommending agency, then it goes to cdc. the cdc will be -- so by the end of this week i think we'll learn more about exactly what the recommendations are, but i want to make one point, i mean, hopefully to some extent this will impact the pandemic by giving a third dose to people who are at highest ri

pfizer and moderna shot. the move to produce an mrna job comes as concerns grow over vaccines.e studies show that the enactive vaccines create fewer antibodies than mrna shots. singapore is forming a digital bank. a british lender will invest 170 u.s. million dollars -- hundred 70 million u.s. dollars. they will put in $71.5 million for the remainder. it is charters second digital business in the region. >> we are seeing a researcher japanese equities adding to what we have seen over the last couple of days. the nikkei back above the 30,000 level held by the inclusion of some of these big names from next month. look at those. we have nintendo. nintendo was largely expected. our stocks reporter joins us. this is a reshuffle. it happens often. a lot of people -- what are people saying about these changes? reporter: like you said, we have nintendo included the strand. and nintendo was somewhat expected. the inclusion of the other two were less expected but overall investors are welcoming the change. like you said, these are big companies with big market cap and these are very popu

set for september 20th, likely beginning with pfizer, because they were the first to submit their data. and tonight, dr. fauci says that a third shot of mrna vaccines likely increases dramatically the level of protection and that he anticipates that we will likely see that as the standard regimen, three shots somewhere down the line. david? >> marcus, thank you. >>> in the northeast tonight, in new york and new jersey, president biden today touring the damage after the deadly set of storms, the flash flooding, the tornadoes. the delt toll still rising from that. more than 50 dead in the northeast. the president touring several storm damaged areas today. and tonight here, video showing members of the nypd trying to save people, some trapped in basement apartments, filling rapidly with water. and we continue to follow the desperation in the south. in new orleans, five senior citizens were found dead in their assisted living homes. tonight, president biden saying it is clear climate change is here. and tonight, parts of new york and new jersey are bracing for more rain in the next 24 hours. there could be flash flood watches in the day ahead.