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Driven by low vaccination rates in a handful of states and the fast-spreading delta variant also test the white house. the cdc advisory board today recommending some immunocompromised get a third dose of the pfizer and moderna vaccines. one day after the fda approved the three-dose region mane. as for the rest of the population. >> we are assuming that sooner or later were going to have to give boosters. so what were doing right now the decision is we dont need to do it right now. its not immine...

Oh, thats cool... i mean, we dont have that. schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. there is breaking news just coming in. a final decision on covid vaccine booster shots for some people with compromised immune systems. i nadia, whats the latest on your end? >> reporter: the cdc voted to approve a third booster shot for people who are immunocompromised. we saw a research study that

She had antibodies. so she got a third shot today. >> im just so relieved, not only for myself, but for the thousands of other patients that will now have the opportunity to get the booster shot. >> reporter: the immunocompromised, like cancer and transplant patients, face greater risks. one study shows the chance of a vaccinated transplant patient getting a breakthrough infection is 82 times higher. and the risk of hospitalization or death is 485 times higher. dr. anthony fauci telling david th...

Shots. nick watt is covering it all for us. some people with compromised immune systems are getting good news. they now have final approval to get a third dose of the vaccine. >> reporter: thats right, jim. and heres the deal. we have all heard the talk about break-through infections, people who have been vaccinated but catch covid anyway. well, today the cdc told us that immunocompromised people make up less than 3% of the u.s. population. but more than 30% of those break-through infections. so...

Fully vaccinated. >> almost 8,000 mississippians have died from covid. how many mississippians have died from the vaccine? zero. >> in arkansas, 38% fully vaccinated. >> its been really touch and go. >> reporter: kyles baby is in the hospital with covid. hes pleading. >> get your vaccine so that another child doesnt have to do this, and another family -- doesnt have to send their kid away. >> reporter: both the pfizer and moderna vaccines reportedly provide 100% protection against death even wit...

Have already gone out unauthorized and gotten a third dose on their own. they see the conversation about the booster shots, the disturbing news about the delta variant. does that matter? gl i >> i think, again, we need more studies. in general, what you can say is this, if you have gotten two doses of a pfizer, moderna vaccine, and you didnt develop an immune response to the first two doses its unlikely youre going to develop an immune response to the third. if on the other hand you have had som...

To have changed much from the taliban we defeated 20 years ago. >> admiral stavridis with us tonight. as the covid crisis deepens, again alarming daily numbers. daily hospitalizations now average almost 10,000, up 31% in a week there were 152,000 new cases in just a day, with almost 900 more deaths thats according to an nbc news count fully vaccinated 167 million, but still just slightly above 50% of us. morgan chesky is in dallas with more >> reporter: tonight, hospitals running low on rooms,...

The fda last authorized an additional covid dose for certain americans. that includes organ transplants recipients and others with weakened immune systems. more from dr. sanjay gupta. >> were probably talking about 9 million people railrare so whl into this category of immunocompromised. people taking chemo for cancer, people taking medications to prevent rejection of their organ transplants, hiv patients, it could be people who take medications because they have autoimmune disorders. well look ...

General population? do you think the u.s. should be more aggressive in this? >> well, you know, i think it makes sense for the immunocompromised right now for some of the reasons dr. fauci was talking about. you know that people who are immunocompromised and whove been vaccinated in the past, we know besides having lower antibody levels, theyre far more likely to get sick, 485 times more likely to be hospitalized. its not just they have fewer antibodies, it means theyre getting sicker as a resul...

He says that we can better protect those people who are at higher risk if more people than the general population get vaccinated themselves. he says without that, without reaching that 80% to 90% number, they can take that vaccine and it can certainly help them, but down the road, theyre likely going to have to get another booster shot. and so he says that we can all do our part not necessarily just the immunocompromised to help everyone out here. that was his hope, because he says that the over...