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Cdcs committee of outside experts will be ready to start this booster program during the week of september 20, at which time anyone vaccinated on or before january 20 will be eligible to get a booster shot. just remember, as a simple rule. eight months after your second shot, get a booster shot. >> well, that is not the case now. clearly the fda did not approve that. other problems the administration has had as well this week, as we reported earlier, the admission by the u.s. military killing 10...

Booster vaccine plan but is recommending narrowing the scope who should get a third shot. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us live from the north lawn with murky messaging on boosters from this administration. good evening, peter. >> good evening, bret. president biden likes to say pandemic is not political. layout of todays booster theory was because doctors debated the science for hours and then took a vote on and the result was no boosters yet. >> this vote did not pass since the m...

>> the cnns committee of outside experts will be ready to start this booster program during the week of september 20. it will be easy. just show your vaccination card and youll get a booster. >> that obviously was not the bite i wanted to run. the bite i wanted to run, the former chief scientist said what i do think was backwards and not helpful was that the white house made an announcement with a certain date before really all the data had come in before fda had had a chance to review it and be...

Foreshadowing that a booster program was going to come. imagine the outcry from the public if the white house had said nothing last month when the israelis, the germans, the british government, when they had already started allowing boosters when there was pretty good evidence that immunity was waning. if the biden administration did not take a stance at that point, we would have been very angry and there would be an outcry of a different type. >> what do you think, sanjay? >> well, i think that...

Of the science. on august 18th they announced a booster program and announced september 20th for people who received the vaccine in january. the fda panel will need late this afternoon. the fda has to decide whether to take their advice or not. the cdc is not meeting until next week. we have not heard from the white house. but i cant imagine that they will be rolling out boosters before the 2 main health regulators, the cdc and the fda approve it if they approve it. >> john: we will see. who is ...

Scientists quite angry, they say the president of the united states should not be talking about something until fda and cdc scientists have been able to look at the data and weigh in on their thoughts. so lets take a look at what some of this data is. at issue is whether two shots are enough to protect people. u.s. and qatari studies suggest that two shots are sufficient but there are israeli studies that suggest that two shots are not sufficient to protect against severe covid-19. and from the ...

House as soon as he starts speaking. and now, the debate over covid booster shots. >> john: this is what he said last week. >> the plan is get a booster shot eight months after you got your second shot. the cdc and outside experts will be ready to start this booster program the week of september 20th. >> thats a few days from now. and there are two leader that are planning on leaving the agency because they have separate concerns. to ensure that the recommendations about boosting, are based on r...

This winter. >> reporter: the president of moderna telling nbc news their vaccine also shows waning protection against infection over time. >> your data shows protection is dipping, but theyre still protected from hospitalization. why are they still necessary? >> we do know that some cases do become severe and some lead to hospitalization and death. we think as the numbers get larger, there will be a substantial number of severe cases that will start to crop up. >> its not just moderna and pfize...

♪ >> bret: there are growing questions tonight about president bidens vaccine policy and whether he is ignoring medical advice about booster shots. we will know more tomorrow after an fda meeting. tonight, white house correspondent peter doocy looks at whats at stake for president biden. days after several afghans were killed clinging to a cargo plane president biden tried to change the subject back to covid. >> theres a simple rule -- rule. 8 months after your second shot, get a booster shot....

A booster program. there those eligible be able to >> i think so. the early on we relied on the pharmacy chains and hospital systems to provide immunization and there was such demand that there was a need to open unvaccination hubs so i think we have to go back to the pharmacy chains and the hospital systems and hopefully that will be adequate but that remains to be seen. >> some question the benefits of boosters but is there harm to a young person getting a third dose of the pfizer vaccine? im ...