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Can possibly get needles into arms get vaccinated as soon as possible, brian. >> and i also want to ask you about the other news this week, and that is fda on the verge of making it possible to mix and match vaccine brands. in that subset, are there combinations that are better? if you have a baseline two-shot moderna, is it better for you if you get the pfizer? if you have the j&j, is any booster the best option? >> well, let me start with the j&j situation. if youve had the single j&j shot, wh...

Of making it possible to mix and match vaccine brands. in that subset, are there combinations that are better, if you have a baseline to shop moderna, is it better for you if you get the pfizer. if you have the j&j, is any booster the best option? >> let me start with the j&j situation. so if you have the single j&j shot, which is what was recommended as single. a single dose, it is probably going to be recommended that all those people eventually need to get a booster shot. and a lot of people ...

Matching, they should give some guidance on which combinations make sense and when. >> if i got the johnson & johnson dose and research shows that moderna and pfizers boosters might be stronger, why would anyone opt for the johnson & johnson booster? >> i think theres not a lot of reason to. if you look at -- there was one group of original folks who got the single dose j&j who had this increased risk of a rare cerebral venus thrombosis, important side effect, which makes one wonder whether anyo...

This is a group with lower overall efficacy than we have seen with the mrna vaccines, so there is some urgency here. >> reporter: the advisers also launching into a spirited debate over whether j&j should have been a two-dose vaccine to begin with. the company defending the need for a single-shot option in a pandemic. and today, a key question on mixing and matching vaccines, specifically whether its safe and effective to boost johnson & johnson with an mrna shot. a small study shows that a john...

94%, 95% protected against getting sick from covid-19 but soon after the johnson & johnson vaccine it was 72%. 72% is still a god vaccine, but its not as good as moderna and pfizers, so i think theres more of a feeling of urgency that a second shot is especially important for those who got johnson & johnson. now, ana, you mentioned mixing and matching. these vaccine experts will hear about a study where some people got pfizer and then as a booster got moderna and then as a booster got johnson & ...

And so, lets take a look at the study. this is a study that is relatively small. 458 participants. they broke the groups down into nine groups and that is because there are three groups of individuals who got the pfizer, moderna, and johnson & johnson vaccine. thats three groups who then got the -- the same booster as they got of the initial vaccine. then, they have six additional groups of people who got a different brand than what they got initially. the most important takeaways are two things...

Out yesterday that showed that -- it looked at the combinations of the three vaccines, two mrna and the johnson & johnson vaccine. what it showed is that as a booster, the mrna vaccines tended to give a more robust level of neutraliing antibody. what i was referring to before is the fact that with the kinetics of the antibody response are different. the antibody levels dont peak until 60, 70, 80 days afterwards. this study cut short around 30 days. it stacked the deck looking at the effectivenes...

There are three groups of individuals who got the pfizer, moderna, and johnson & johnson vaccine. thats three groups who then got the -- the same booster as they got of the initial vaccine. then, they have six additional groups of people who got a different brand than what they got initially. the most important takeaways are two things. one is that all of these different nine combinations are safe, as in there are no new or different side effects so all of these appear to be safe. and then, the ...