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measure will be introduced on the same date that anyone who has not received a booster shot six months after getting a second vaccine dose will have their Green Pass revoked. There has been considerable disagreement and discussion about whether the delta variant is more severe in children compared to other variants. Certain studies showed that delta variant appears to be more serious in adults compared to other variants; however, there is disagreement about children. A recent study came out from the UK showing that severity of illness was similar in children who were infected with the alpha variant compared to the delta variant . See link below: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.06.21264467v1.full.pdf As booster discussions and disagreements continue, the Israeli data more and moire show that my stance on boosters is correct. For example, it is becoming clear that boosters protect against the waning immunity for infection and severe disease for individuals as young as 40 years old and not just for individuals who are 65 years of age and older . See recent paper in preprint server: Protection Across Age Groups of BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster against Covid-19 Yinon M. Bar-On*, M.Sc., Yair Goldberg*, Ph.D., Micha Mandel, Ph.D., Omri Bodenheimer, M.Sc., Laurence Freedman, Ph.D., Sharon Alroy-Preis, M.D., Nachman Ash, M.D., Amit Huppert*, Ph.D. and Ron Milo*, Ph.D. *Contributed equally Had very successful leadership forum today. Somewhat sentimental since it is Francis Collins's last leadership forum Oct. 10, 2021 - Global USA Had a rather slow relaxed day (Columbus Day holiday). Also Chris went to New Orleans to help Megan and Melissa move into their new home. I spend time reading in depth certain articles including the frightening article in the New York Times by Robert Kagan on the danger to our democracy. In addition I read a bunch of scientific stuff that felt good since I usually AM 1/2 an inch deep and five miles wide. I'm trying to put out of my mind the continual attacks by the far right dark web, Fox News, and the lying senators and congressmen who keep harping on the gain of function nonsense. I'm trying hard to not let it distract me, but it clearly is an organized assault on me PRESS: CNN "State of the Union" with Dana Bash Oct. 11, 2021 Over the past few months and more intensively over the past several weeks there has been considerable discussion between Peter Staley, James Krellenstein, and David Barr and Jeff