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Possible and, in fact, likely that j&j recipients will need a boost. but the question is, at what time frame and also, with what vaccine? a j&j vaccine or an mrna vaccine. were awaiting data from johnson & johnson, the company itself, about a two-dose regiment of j&j that will help us understand the safety and efficacy of the second dose. and we have what are called mixing studies under way, where you get one type of vaccine and another vaccine, including j&j and mrna mix so we can look at the e...

Keeping people out of hospital. thats the question that the w.h.o. and other countries have should america be giving this booster now when people are still being kept out of hospital when there are so many people around the world who havent had a chance to have their first shot. lets bring in dr. peter hotez dean at baylor college of medicine. he also is the author of the book, preventing the next pandemic. doctor, good morning, its great to have you with us. lets start with the booster, somet...

Heres our health correspondent. naomi grimley reports. for months, the office for national statistics and oxford university have been asking hundreds of thousands of us to do swabs for their research. do you have any symptoms? its the biggest study of its kind in the world. unlike other studies, which have looked at how effective the vaccines are at keeping people out of hospital, this one has looked at how good they are at preventing any infection by the delta variant. the study showed the pfiz...

Public will go into arms september 20th after the fda and cdc sign off, most adults fully vaccinated for at least eight months will qualify. a top priority, protecting health care workers, nursing home residents and seniors who were vaccinated first. the booster shot, a third dose of the same formula and vaccine for those fully inoculated with pfizer or moderna. >> it will be easy, show your vaccination card and you get a booster. >> reporter: for those vaccinated with johnson & johnson, a boost...

Question. we dont know how many exactly. we know about hospitalizations and deaths. we dont know about cases as a whole because the cdc publicly stop tracking breakthrough cases several months ago. theyre only counting what comes into hospitals and who dies fully vaccinated. thats been criticized. is it time they do a uturn on that frankly? >> i think its important the cdc modernize a bit in order to track vaccine effectiveness. there have been grants put in place for that purpose, but you know ...

Effectiveness of the vaccine has gone down from 90% to 40 to 50%. so far keeping up well in terms of keeping people out of the hospital but i think the worry is that with that decline from 90 to 40%, which is a significant decline, thats the tip of the spear and well start seeing a precipitous rise in hospitalizations among vaccinated individuals. were hearing anecdotes from physicians that 10, 20% of their hospitalized patients are vaccinated. so its not too surprising, given the fact when we r...

Signals, some safety signals showing that the vaccines starting to lose some effectiveness against mild and moderate disease. and we can show you that. for the first time we saw some data from the united states, because before that it was primarily data from other countries. but they looked at a couple of different groups here. health care workers, front line workers on the left, workers on the right, there was mild disease and that waning was due to delta and how delta has changed things. the c...

Of pfizer compared to astrazeneca. for example, 93% against symptomatic infections for pfizer and 71% for astrazeneca. however, overtime, the effectiveness declines faster with pfizer than for astrazeneca. the more sobering news is that when infections do occur, double vaccinated people have the same levels of virus in their nose and throat as those who have not beenjabbed. the researchers say this shows the potential for these people to pass on the disease, even if they are protected against se...

Cdc stopped publicly tracking breakthrough cases several months ago. the only count with comes into hospitals and who dies fully vaccinated. that has been criticized by a number of scientists. what do you make of that decision? how has it impacted public? help is a time -- what is your turn on? this >> i think its important that the cdc modernize a bit in order to track vaccine effect. there have been grants put in place for that purpose. but you know, most of the preliminary data that we are ge...

Speak, because as the cdc was telling clinicians there was no basis forg getting booster shot. the other thing that strikes me, youre hearing a rationale for anticipating what may come and trying to get ahead of that. theres not the data showing a decrease really in the effectiveness of these vaccines for hospitalizations and people dying of this disease. there may have been more people who are getting mild and moderate illness. what theyre saying and what hes saying all day long today is that t...