National Institute of Allergy has what we call a doubling time of about three days. And if you do the math on National Institute of Allergy, if you have just a couple of percentage of the isolates being Omicron, very soon it's going to be the dominant variant.

Anthony Fauci

So if you want to only worry about yourself and not society, then that's OK.

The default should be, and has been for quite a while, that to the best of our ability, we should try to get children back to school as quickly as we can and keep them in schools.

I would get as much outdoors as you possibly can. If you look at the super spreader events that have occurred, I think it's incorrect to call people super spreaders. The event is super spread. They're almost always inside, nothing's 100%, but it's almost invariable that it's indoors. So when you are indoors, make sure you have a mask, when you're outdoors, keep the mask on.

I keep the mask on, keep the windows open.

That's the reason why we and other rich countries have to exert what I think is a moral responsibility to help the rest of the world get this under control, a year from now we'll be in really much better shape than we are now, but there'll be other countries that won't be. The quicker we get the rest of the world protected, the more secure will our protection be.

There are different sections of the country that have different dynamics of infection, if a particular region is really, really very low and doing really, really well, certainly I think there's going to be a differential in being able to say one can do certain things or not.

If they call a pause for such a rare event, you can be sure that they take safety very, very seriously, if any degree of hesitancy is related to continued concern about safety, you just need to look at the system, which is highly sensitive in using surveillance to look for adverse events.

I don't want to get ahead of the CDC's recommendation, but the European Medicines Agency -- which asks the same question about the use of the JJ product in Europe -- has made the determination that they will allow it to be given, because they feel that the risk of Covid-19 far outweighs the very rare, rare occurrence of this serious adverse event, they are letting the vaccine go out with a warning to people about what to look for, about what the risk is.

I don't think that's going to be a factor in whether or not the CDC and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and ultimately Johnson Johnsons vaccineThe FDA, will make a decision, the decision of what to do with this vaccine as a vaccine product is not going to be influenced by that. It's going to be influenced by the data and safety -- not in what's going on there.

The decision of what to do with this vaccine as a vaccine product is not going to be influenced by that. It's going to be influenced by the data and safety -- not in what's going on there, but you can be assured, and the American public can be assured, that no vaccines are going to go out of there unless Johnson Johnsons vaccineThe FDA is quite confident in them.

My message, Congressman Jordan, is to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as we possibly can to get the level of infection in this country low, that it is no longer a threat, that is when.

If anyone's got a doubt that they may not be taking safety very seriously, I think this is an affirmation that safety is a primary consideration when it comes to the FDA and the CDC, that's why it was done and that's why it's a pause. It isn't a cancellation ; it's a pause.

I mean, in this last month The US's just been horrifying what's happened, how can you say The US's not The US ?

What we are doing is we’re trying to get, by a community core, trusted messages that anyone would feel comfortable with listening to, whether you’re a Republican, a Democrat, an independent or whomever you are, that you’re comfortable.

Hopefully, by Friday, we’ll get back on track one way or the other.

Hopefully, we'll get a decision quite soon as to whether or not we can get back on track with this very effective vaccine.

I'm not favoring anybody over anybody, i'm just making a statement that's a broad statement... avoid crowds of any type no matter where you are, because that leads to the acquisition and transmission. And I don't judge one crowd versus another crowd.

OK,we're gonna play that game, let me explain to you what happened back then.

When we get the level of infection in this country low enough that it is not a really high threat.

I'm not in a position to determine what the government can do in a forceful way.