Dr. Fauci wants everyone to know that they can go ahead and get boosted after 6 months.
Fauci says there's confusion about who should be boosted. "Make it easy to understand."
Fauci said that the effect of boost is very favorable to preventing people from getting infections. Some experts are cautious about over-vaccinating young adults.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is done talking about who should be first in line for booster shots.
He told Insider on Monday that his goal was to make it clear that if you have been shot, go get boosted.
Make it easy. If you had a primary vaccine, you should get a booster.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more conservative guidance than health officials around the country who are starting to endorse that stance.
Adults over 18 living or working in a high risk zone should not get boosters, according to the CDC. Many of Fauci's peers agree with that.
Fauci thinks it's a good move to simplify the US booster campaign to bolster immunity and to clear up confusion, because most adults who are already eligible have not gotten boosted.
Fauci said to not make it complicated.
Fauci said that Boosters will cut down on hospitalizations and deaths.
Frank Mallone received a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot at the Safeway on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on October 4, 2021.
Fauci hopes that booster shots for all adults will help keep people out of the hospital and help keep people from dying.
He points to data from Israel that shows that people over the age of 40 are less likely to be hospitalized for chronic bronchitis if they have booster shots.
Fauci said that the effect of boost is very favorable to preventing people from getting infections.
It's true that booster shots are more of an urgent need for older people and those with compromised immune systems, but there is evidence to suggest that widespread boosting will cut down on coronaviruses across the board.
Public health experts stress that it's important that young men under 30 who have been at increased risk of heart inflammation after vaccination with the mRNA vaccines, wait to see more safety data before concluding that boosters are the right
Fauci agrees that it's important to make sure that the benefit-risk ratio for younger people is still considered.
He believes that a booster is safe for most people.
"We have to get everybody who's gotten the primary vaccine boosted," Fauci said. "For the most part, the vaccines protect quite well against hospitalization, even though they don't have a boost."
Dr. Stanley Plotkin, who helped invent the first vaccine, agrees with Fauci's stance.
Plotkin thinks that people who've had Pfizer and Moderna vaccines should get a third shot at the end of the series.
Plotkin told Insider that if you only vaccine during the first couple of months, you won't get immunity. The third dose is necessary if the virus continues to circulate.
Fauci knows that immunizing the unvaccinated will not fix the bigger issue.
Nicole Fahey is six months pregnant and will receive her Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot in Los Angeles in November of 2021.
Fauci's booster stance is being criticized by other virus experts who want him to focus on the large portion of the country that is still not vaccine free.
Fauci said that unvaccinated people are responsible for most of the circulation of the virus in the community.
Plotkin doesn't sugar coat it.
He said that people who don't vaccine are putting their countrymen at risk. "Either you accept that individuals have a responsibility to the community, or you don't and let the disease spread and kill whoever's going to be killed," said the statement.
Fauci didn't comment when I asked why scientists are so divided on the utility of boosters. He said that trying to perfect the timing of boosters was not a good idea.
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