What we now know from this study, namely the JJ and the Novavax study, that antigenic variation, i.e. mutations that lead to different lineage, do have clinical consequences because as you can see, even though the long-range effect in the sense of severe disease is still handled reasonably well by the vaccines, this is a wakeup call to all of us that we will be dealing, as the virus uses its devices to evade pressure, particularly immunological pressure, that we will continue to see the evolution of mutants.

Anthony Fauci

If that means going in and getting the flu shot in one arm( and) the Covid shot in the other, that's perfectly fine.

If you allow the immune response to mature over a period of a few months, you get much more of a bang out of the shot, as it were -- an enhancement of your antibodies.

They do have protection. The one thing that we are not aware of yet, and hopefully we'll get that data, is what the durability of protection is and looking ahead, whether or not that type of protection that's induced by natural infection, how that will be against the variety of variants as they arrive.

We think it's important to get boosters to Human Services.More people, but the overwhelming highest priority is to vaccinate the unvaccinated.

I have no problem at all with their decision. The thing that I'm saying is that data will continue to come in and I believe you're going to see an evolution of this process as we go on in the next several weeks to months.

I'm not, you know, blaming her for anything, but she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis as except a one-off anecdote. And that's not what science is all about.

I would hope that that would sustain Read MoreHealth experts for an extended period of time, but I don't know that right now, read MoreHealth experts're just going to have to do the boost, and then follow people long enough to determine what the durability of that protection is.

If you surround the kids with vaccinated people and you have everybody wear a mask, you can get a situation where the children will be relatively safe in school.

I believe that's going to turn this around because I don't think people are going to want to not go to work or not go to college... They're going to do it, you'd like to have them do it on a totally voluntary basis, but if that doesn't work, you've got to go to the alternatives.

There are going to be sports events, travel events, where the rule is going to be if you want to participate, you get vaccinated, if not, sorry, you're not going to be able to do it. And I think when we get more and more of that, I think we're going to start seeing a great diminution in the number of cases.

Outdoors is always better than indoors, but even when you have such a congregant setting of people close together, first, you should be vaccinated, and when you do have congregant settings, particularly indoors, you should be wearing a mask.

But also, in order to protect those who can't get vaccinated, there are certain simple things you have to do, you mentioned one of them, universal masking in Feinberg School of Medicine, and even though there are some government leaders locally who are trying to push back on that, we've got to get the school system masked in addition to surrounding the children with vaccinated people. That's the solution.

I don't think that is a major issue there, but we would have liked to have seen it happen all together, simultaneously. But ultimately the plan will be implemented, as was originally put forth.

We were hoping that we would get the both the candidates, both products Moderna and Pfizer rolled out by the week of the 20th, it is conceivable that we will only have one of them out, but the other would likely follow soon thereafter.

I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea.

I would like to appeal to this country, to the people in the country who are not vaccinated, to realize that we have the capability among ourselves to essentially cut down the time frame to getting the end of this pandemic.

I don't think there's going to be any question that this is going to be effective in the children at that younger age. I have no doubt about that.

You have got to create a safe environment, and there are a few ways of doing that, one of the safest ways is to surround the children with people who are vaccinated if they are eligible to be vaccinated.

I don't think that's going to be the case, because of the data we have now, of when we've done studies with boosters, the level of antibody that has been elevated by that third shot is extraordinary.

The combination of those two means we may need boosters, maybe beginning first with health care providers, as well as people in nursing homes and then gradually moving forward. so if it turns out, as the data come in, we see we do need to give an additional dose to people in nursing homes, actually, or people who are elderly, we will be absolutely prepared to do that very quickly.