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If you have a mRNACOVID vaccine-Chat's Pfizer or Moderna - You will be eligible for an extra shot on your eighth month birthday. This means for some groups on September 20th. Who gets the first of them? And what happens if you skip the line? And do boosters say the effectiveness of the vaccine? Here with answers to your booster questions isDr. Anthony Fauci, the Chief Medical Councilor of the President and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who spoke withAndrea Mitchell of MSNBC. Read about five points that could save your life - and to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseSure sign that you have "Long" Covid and may even know.

"It was very clear that the protection of the vaccine offered infection and mild to moderate diseases decreased," said Dr. Faisci. "It always had a very high protection against severe disease leading to hospitalization and death, but the direction was evil. In other words, you see attenuation over a period of time, especially in the context of the delta very annoying and very transmissible variant. It is superimposed on the experience that Israel saw. And they are usually about, you know, a month or more in front of us in the vaccine, as well as in the experience with the virus Delta and the variant of the delta. And they began to see not only in mitigation and protection against mild to moderate diseases and infections, but it had begun to see an increase in hospitalizations, especially in vulnerable. . And because of that, we felt that it was much better to stay ahead of the curve. "

"It's very clear right now that when you give someone a reminder and we have done studies, it increases the level of antibody associated with protection at a very high level. And what is happened today, which came out of a report from the public health organization in Israel, which they are already beginning to see an effect of their boosters, their third shot, which it contributes a lot to marry This decrease in protection. So it was the right call. I mean, it does not mean that vaccines do not protect. They are always very protective. We want to stay ahead of the match to make sure that the sustainability of this protection continues. We always feel the most important thing. Andrea is to get unvaccinated people vaccinated. As quickly as possible. And for those who have been vaccinated, this recommendation for a reminder is to remain ahead of the virus and make sure the PROTEC is high and prolonged. "

Mitchell pointed out that it was part of the first Times Fauci said you could get serious Covid after vaccination. "At this moment, when you look at this country and the vaccinations that have been given for the most part, there is a high degree of protection against hospitalization and death," Dr. Faisci said. "What we see with the delta variant, an advanced infection, which you expect to see in a situation in which you have a vaccine, it is not a hundred percentage of protection. If you are vaccinated in general, These revolutionary infections are lightweight in Modetry, sometimes even asymptomatic. But what we start to see over time, these are these signals only over a period of time, it starts to mitigate and down. So we are protected now, Rather than saying that we are waiting for a significant illness and hospitalizations, let's go ahead of the curve. Do these people are reminded. In general, about eight months after the original scheme to prevent the kind of thing you Speak. We are not seeing it now. We want to prevent it. And I think it's a good public health policy to prevent me that we prevent not having to react to something that happens e. "

"I would not say it's dangerous" to silence your booster before eight months, "said Dr. FaCi," but one of the things we learned from an immunological point of view, only if you get a first and A boost for two, three to four weeks later, you get the maximum effect of a late thumbs if you give the immune system a chance of mature over a period of several months. So when you do that, you Do you want to make sure that people do not suddenly decide, they will come out, get their second dose, you know, a few weeks ago, and now, well, I want to get my third dose. Now. I think that This could overcome the goal. And that's why we landed at eight months. When you look at the first people who got their vaccine, was in January and it works in favor of doing it properly and correctly. that those who were necessary this. "

"The most vulnerable, the elderly of health that were at the vacancy of people in nursing homes" are people who need the booster first, said Dr. Faisci. "So, if you look at the selection of eight months, the second third is the third week in September, on September 20, you are right about eight months from this group of origin. And to do so in an orderly manner. , you can speed up depending on when you had your vaccine scheme, was it February, March, April, then you then reply. I mean, obviously what will happen from human nature, it is that people will say, well, I did not want to wait for them. They will do it. There is not much that you can do about it, but recommend the window from when that should be done. "

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Dr. Fauci says he does not make sense for all of us to get antibody tests and see if we are protected after vaccination because it is difficult to prove "if it reflects or not the complexity. total immune response and protective correlative immunity. reply. We know about some studies that we have done that the level of antibody has increased, there was a higher degree of protection. But I think if you count on an antibody test to make a decision, it will be very complicated and there can be false pasts. And that's why the best way to do it is to do so on the basis of a time element and not on an antibody test. "

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"Let me say here very clearly: the most important thing to do is to receive these 90 million million people in this country that are eligible for vaccination, to vaccinate them," said Fauci. "Because even if it is important for vaccinated people to continue the level of protection they have, it's like or more important for non-vaccinated people to be vaccinated in the first place. So, do not confuse these messages. - It's absolutely critical. People should not look at that and say, does it mean that the vaccine does not work? No, vaccines work; the booster we are talking about is to know that this protection, which is very high, lasts for a long period of time at a high level. The vaccines work. And because of this, we must obtain unvaccinated people vaccinated. "

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Follow the fundamentals of Fauci and help put an end to this pandemic, no matter where you live-yourself-hinder vaccinating. If you live in an area with low vaccination rates, wear a N95facial maskDo not travel, social distance, avoid big crowds, do not go inside with people you are not shelter with (especially in bars), practice good hand hygiene and protect your life and the lives of others, don 't visit one of these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.