Americans who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can enjoy the upcoming holiday season ‘the way we’ve traditionally done it,’ Dr. Anthony Fauci announced Sunday morning.
“I strongly believe that – especially in vaccinated people, if you have been vaccinated and your family members who are vaccinated, who are clearly very young children and not yet eligible are, that you can enjoy the holidays,” said during an interview on Immunologist ABC this week.
‘You can enjoy Halloween, trick-or-treating, and of course Thank you with your family and Christmas With your family.’
Fauci argued that celebrating together is one of the main reasons health experts stressed the importance of vaccination.
His vacation recommendations come just two weeks after he said it was ‘too soon’ to say whether Americans could gather for Christmas.
Dr. Anthony Fauci announced Sunday that Americans who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can celebrate the holidays together ‘the way we’ve traditionally done it’
the president at that time Joe BidenThe chief medical expert of the U.S. had earlier expressed cautious optimism about the country COVID-19 The numbers are dwindling – though warned that the country needed to be vigilant.
Fauci said on October 3, ‘It is too early to tell. We just have to focus on getting those numbers down and not try to go ahead for weeks or months and say what we’re going to do. At a particular time.’
Now, as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued guidance Friday with recommendations on how to celebrate the holiday safely, Fauci is singing a different tune.
He told Martha Radtz on Sunday, ‘It is very important to get vaccinated to keep infection levels low, not only for your own safety, for your family, but for the well-being of the community.
‘When you do, there’s no reason why you can’t enjoy a family vacation the way we’ve traditionally done it.’
CDC’s holiday recommendations Areas with high infection rates include wearing a mask indoors, avoiding crowded places, and staying home if you are sick, which are ways to help prevent the spread of the virus.
They also offer special considerations for Americans who may be suffering from conditions or taking medications that weaken their immune systems.
Fauci also argued that getting vaccinated is “important, not only for your own safety, but for your family’s, but also for the good of the community, to keep infection levels down.”
Also during Sunday’s interview, Fauci shared that he believes johnson and johnson should have made my own COVID-19 One is offering a two-dose vaccine and encouraging Americans to get a booster for the one-jab vaccine as soon as it becomes available.
The immunologist issued a warning after a recent study found that the safety of the J&K shot fell from 88 percent in March to just three percent in August.
‘What for consultants’ FDA felt that, given the data they saw, very likely, it should have been a two-dose vaccine,’ Fauci said during a Sunday morning interview on ABC This Week.
‘So the idea of making a recommendation is that people who originally received J&J should receive a second dose – who are 18 or older with no restrictions on whether you are at high risk -This is how everyone who is 18 years of age and older should get the first dose of J&J.’
His remarks come just days after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee unanimously recommended booster shots for adult J&J recipients.
Fauci also reiterated that J&J recipients should not be concerned about the jab’s lower efficacy compared to Pfizer or Moderna, but rather ‘feel good’ about the booster recommendation.
They also confirmed that people who got the J&J jab may get better by getting booster shots from Pfizer or Moderna Vaccines, which were proven to be more effective.
‘It’s true, the data you refer to, if you boost people who originally got J&J with Moderna or Pfizer, the level of antibodies you produce in them has the same level as the original J&J. There’s so much more to it than raising together. Fauci said.
‘However, you are talking about laboratory data, which often reflect what you would see clinically. But the data for increasing the first dose of J&J with the second dose of J&J is based on clinical data. So what’s going to happen is that the FDA is going to look at all those data, look at the comparison and determine what they’ll authorize.’
He continued: ‘Once an authority is created, the ACIP – or the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices – that advises the CDC will recommend that those who are receiving and those receiving J&K should what should be done.
‘So it will be a process of authorization first and then a recommendation after considering all the data.’
Fauci predicts that CDC and FDA advisory committee recommendations about whether or not J&J recipients should ‘mix and match’ booster shots will likely give a degree of flexibility depending on the individual situation.
‘I think it’s going to change depending on who you are. For example, a woman of childbearing age who will have almost no problem with a potential adverse event of myocarditis – which you see, rarely but you see it with an mRNA vaccine – may want to take that approach, ‘ He said.
‘If you are a young man who has such a very, very rare risk of getting myocarditis, you can go the J&K route.’
His remarks come just days after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee unanimously recommended booster shots for adult J&J recipients.
An advisory committee made up of an array of public health experts announced Friday that adults who were vaccinated with the one-dose vaccine get a second shot at least two months after their first.
A study, released Thursday but not peer-reviewed, tracked more than 620,000 military veterans who received the vaccine and found that protection fell from 88 percent in March to just 3 percent in August.
In comparison, Moderna’s vaccine effectiveness fell from 92 percent to 64 percent. Pfizer’s vaccine safety has dropped from 91 percent to 50 percent.
According to the CDC, about 15 million Americans received the J&J vaccine, about 91 percent of whom received the shot more than two months ago.
COVID vaccine booster shots are being recommended even though cases of infection are decreasing after the summer boom due to the delta variant. Experts point to CDC data showing that unvaccinated adults are 11 times more likely to die from COVID than vaccinated adults.
‘J&J is a very good commentary. Dr Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, said, “I also believe that this is probably a two-shot vaccine. CNN. ‘It’s really important that people get that second shot very quickly.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 15 million Americans received the J&J vaccine, about 91 percent of whom received the shot more than two months ago.
So far, about 65.8 percent of the US population has been vaccinated against COVID
On Thursday, an FDA advisory committee recommended Moderna’s booster shots to those over the age of 65, but the agency delayed its decision to authorize a COVID vaccine for teens and young adults.
Fauci addressed the need for Booster during his Sunday interview on ABC, saying that the timeline for authorization on Modern Booster “would really depend on the data coming in, because the work we’re doing, we’re working with the data.” rolling in real time.
He cited that in addition to the data collected by the CDC, researchers are also analyzing data from Israel because the country is “temporarily about a month or a half ahead of us with their vaccinations and with the data on their decreased immunity.” As well as seeing about the benefits of promoting people of different age groups.
Immunologists claim that the data researchers are currently looking at from Israel show that even in some younger populations, for example those aged 40 to 60, there is a ‘real benefit’ from getting a booster shot.
‘So, what we’re doing here in the United States, through both the FDA and the CDC, is to follow these data as they accumulate in real time and any revision of the recommendations will be based on that data as they come in. are,’ he explained.
FDA will now consider recommendations from J&J and the Advisory Committee on Modern COVID Booster Shots to make an official decision.
If the FDA accepts the recommendation it’s expected to make, booster shots could be made available by next week.
The FDA previously authorized booster shots of the Pfizer COVID vaccine to people 65 years of age and older, or any adult who is deemed ‘high risk’ because of their living, work or health conditions.
Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, told CNN: “I think anyone getting one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine could benefit from a second dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine. ”
He believes the J&J vaccine would have been initially recommended as a two-dose vaccine if it had not been created at such a time.
The study of military veterans concluded that: ‘Vaccines are the most important tool to prevent infection, serious illness and death, but vaccines should be combined with additional measures, including masking, hand washing, physical distancing and other public health interventions’ Are included. The delta variant is facing an increased risk of infection.
The US has reported 44.9 million cases of coronavirus since the pandemic broke out, with 724,166 deaths.
So far, the US has given 107 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
About 65.8 percent of the US population has received at least one COVID shot. 57.3 percent have been fully vaccinated.
The US has reported 44.9 million cases of coronavirus since the pandemic broke out, with 724,166 deaths. About 65.8 percent of the US population has received at least one COVID shot. 57.3 percent have been fully vaccinated
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