[CNBC Television] FDA expects to have preliminary booster plan next month

🎯 Загружено автоматически через бота: 🚫 Оригинал видео: 📺 Данное видео принадлежит каналу «CNBC Television» (@CNBCtelevision). Оно представлено в нашем сообществе исключительно в информационных, научных, образовательных или культурных целях. Наше сообщество не утверждает никаких прав на данное видео. Пожалуйста, поддержите автора, посетив его оригинальный канал. ✉️ Если у вас есть претензии к авторским правам на данное видео, пожалуйста, свяжитесь с нами по почте support@, и мы немедленно удалим его. 📃 Оригинальное описание: Meg Tirrell reports that the FDA is developing a plan for administering Covid booster shots to certain groups. The plan could be released in September. As the country heads into the fall, it’ll be almost a year since some people had their first dose of an mRNA vaccine and their immunity to Covid could be waning. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday he believes that Covid vaccine booster shots will start to be given in the U.S. as early as next month to older people and those with compromised immune systems. “My guess is sometime by September or October we will be giving booster shots to older individuals and certainly immunocompromised,” said the former Food and Drug Administration chief, currently a board member at several companies including Pfizer. “I just think we’re on a slower path here,” he said on “Squawk Box,” referring to other countries’ booster shot plans. “Quite frankly, it’s unfortunate because I do believe at least for older individuals and people who were vaccinated back in December, January should be contemplating this more actively,” he said, adding those people seem to be more susceptible to the virus right now. ”[This is] certainly concerning because eventually those infections are going to break through and develop into more severe disease.” Gottlieb, who led the FDA from 2017 to 2019 during Donald Trump’s presidency, said the booster shot would be a third dose of the existing vaccine available in the U.S., barring any change in the virus that would render the vaccines ineffective against current strains. He said the U.S. government has purchased enough vaccines to give booster shots to its entire population. “For people who think that this is a zero-sum game and giving boosters to Americans is going to take vaccines away from other countries, those vaccines have already been purchased. A lot of them have been stockpiled,” Gottlieb said. “They exist and they’re not going to be used unless they’re used by the U.S. government. The U.S. government’s going to maintain a stockpile of Covid vaccine as a national security matter.” Questions about the necessity of booster shots have been circulating ahead of schools reopening in the fall and the spread of new coronavirus variants. Two of the three Covid vaccines currently being given in the U.S., two-shot regimens from Pfizer and Moderna, were cleared for emergency use by the FDA in late December. Those two companies have applied for full approval. The one-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson received emergency use authorization in February. J&J has not sought full approval yet. Nearly 165 million people in the U.S. are fully vaccinated — almost 50% of the nation’s population — despite the rate of daily administered shots continuing to see a sharp decline, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracker. Some Americans have already found ways to get additional doses of the Covid vaccines, with some even “mixing and matching” vaccines to receive extra shots from different companies. The nation is seeing a new surge in Covid cases driven by the more contagious delta variant, first discovered in India. It’s infecting the more unvaccinated areas of the U.S. Gottlieb reiterated he believes the U.S. is further along in the pandemic wave than what’s being officially measured right now. He said again, as he did Friday, he wouldn’t be surprised if a million or more Americans are being infected each day. He said Monday that Florida is epicenter of Covid right now. » Subscribe to CNBC TV: » Subscribe to CNBC: » Subscribe to CNBC Classic: Turn to CNBC TV for the latest stock market news and analysis. From market futures to live price updates CNBC is the leader in business news worldwide. The News with Shepard Smith is CNBC’s daily news podcast providing deep, non-partisan coverage and perspective on the day’s most important stories. Available to listen by 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT daily beginning September 30: Connect with CNBC News Online Get the latest news: Follow CNBC on LinkedIn: Follow