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In january had a more than twofold increased risk for breakthrough infections versus those vaccinated in april. >> but the question is not about how the vaccines are doing today or last month. its really how are they going to do 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 americans who are fully vaccinated are still protected from hospitalization. so why ar...

Variant is on its way. dr. scott gottlieb says a spike in cases will likely coincide with the reopening of schools but he doesnt think the northeast will be hit as hard as the southern u.s. mostly because of higher vaccination rates. gottlieb also believes more employees will eventually require their workers to get both the flu and covid vaccines. ahead of an important meeting on friday with vaccine advisers to the u.s. food and drug administration, a new agency document says the benefit of co...

Program. they started it about six weeks ago. they say its going very well. lets take a listen to my discussion with with dr. ballster. up until the booster shots israel waited for the fda and the cdc to chime in, but you guys just did booster without the fda and the cdc chiming in. >> i think there was a different level of urgency felt in the two country. decisions by the fda have been made and we could have followed them. but in the situation we were at, it was obvious that action was needed u...

But i do want to bring in cnns senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen who has new details on the decision. this is not going to be an easy decision for the fda. >> jake, when fda vaccine advisers meet on friday to discuss boosters for covid-19 vaccines, well, it is sure to be contentious and perhaps even somewhat bitter. last month president biden came out and talked about the booster program, even gave a date for next week to start that program up. and that has made many scientists quite ...

Lot of debate among these fda vaccine advisers about the best approach. should the u.s. have a booster program or not. jim, erica? >> all right, elizabeth, thank you. i do think we just are learning a little more about what were supposed to hear from pfizer on friday. is that right? >> thats right. we are hearing a little bit more. we know that pfizer will probably present data thats going to say, look, we gave a bunch of people third shots and their antibodies went up. and theyre going to say t...

Immunity. i wonder where you see this debate come down. >> jim, i think its really anyones call right now. talking to folks who are members of this fda vaccine advisory committee, they really dont know whats going to happen. they say that this has gotten pretty messy actually. its becomes contentious, this booster shot program. and even theres some bitterness with president biden saying essentially, lets start a booster program. and scientists saying, hold on a minute, dont talk out of turn, mr....

But the israeli studies suggest that two shots are not sufficient to protect against severe covid-19. and out this hour from the "new england journal of medicine," an israeli study that shows boosters do protect against severe illness. that israeli data is based on their booster program that started on august 1st. theyve already given booster shots to millions of people. now, theres another layer to this. weve already talked about shots protecting against severe illness. but would a booster shot...

The u.s. food and drug administration is set for an important meeting with vaccine experts on friday to decide covid-19 booster shots. but so far there have been late sending data to the experts for review with participants receiving their first documents only on monday. a team of israeli scientists will also be at the meeting to share data on their own booster program. now nearly one-third of israel have received their third shot. but even though the country has a head start, one doctor says th...

Says, no, boosters work, boosters do help keep people out of the hospital. israel has had a booster program for six weeks and say its working quite well. dr. anthony fauci has said repeatedly, look at the israeli data. essentially, boosters are a good idea. this is a real serious debate. we havent seen this kind of debate on covid really in this way. the fda is scheduled to talk about this. advisers will talk about this in five days. it will be really interesting to see how this plays out. e eri...

Booster shots. if approved the biden administration is hoping to roll out a booster program a week from today. health officials are relying on studies out of israel which began a booster program last month. cnn elizabeth cohen live in tel aviv with some of the results happening in israel. elizabeth? >> reporter: john, its really interesting whats been happening here. theyve been doing boosters here for more than six weeks. already about a third of the country has gotten them. the israelis are sc...