Fauci: I Can’t Guarantee People Won’t Need Covid Boosters Indefinitely

EXCERPT:

FAUCI: "Well, Anderson, based on the data from the utilization and implementation of their vaccine program, they are seeing a significant diminution in the durability of protection; they see that more among the elderly than they do among younger. So, they made a decision to do that. We, in this country, are collecting data from multiple cohorts, both domestic and international. The domestic cohorts are being followed literally on a daily and weekly basis by the CDC. We are assuming that sooner or later, we're going to have to give boosters. So, what we're doing, right now, the decision is we don't need to do it right now. It's not imminent. But we're preparing as if it will be imminent. So, we're going to be ready to do it whenever the data shows that the protection has gone below a certain level because of a combination of the durability of protection and the special effect you're seeing with the Delta variant. That is very distinctly different from the issue which was addressed today. We have immune-compromised people who never really ever got, as a group, an adequate response to protect them. So, it isn't as if they have a durability problem. It's as if they've never really had an adequate response. And that's the reason why the decision is made to give it to them and we will be hearing more details about it, as you just said, when the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices talks about this tomorrow at their meeting."