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Whether people need to rethink their holiday plans to stay safe. well bring in marty makary, fox news medical contributor from johns hopkins university. a couple of things here. dana and i were talking during the break. cdc recommends pfizer and moderna over the j&j shot. is that significant? >> were learning that j&j has this complication in women 30 to 50 years of age and it is a one in 100,000 risk of a blood clot. it doesnt matter which vaccine you get. now were being a little more judicious...

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 & ...

Find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com right now a critical meeting on covid boosters is under way any minute. fda vaccine advisers are expected to vote on whether to recommend booster shots for millions of americans who receive the johnson & johnson vaccine. also on the agenda, mixing and matching boosters. new data suggests doing so appears to be safe and effective. i want to get right to cnns elizabeth cohen who is following todays meeting for us. elizabeth, this fda advisory group vo...

Authorization. what can we expect today? >> i think today we can expect, ana, that they will also recommend a booster for those who got johnson & johnson, and it is possible that it will even be earlier, that maybe people who got it just say two months ago should be getting a booster now, that you dont have to wait the six months as has been instructed with moderna and pfizer. also, this booster may not be for everyone. even if you are the required amount of time after the original vaccination f...

Elizabeth, talk to us about this decision. >> you know, this decision in many ways is very similar to the decision made for pfizer and moderna, that a booster shot is useful for a set of people, people over 65, people with certain underlying medical conditions and people in certain jobs, but there is a twist here. there is something that makes this j&j decision different, and that is for pfizer and moderna, youre supposed to wait six months after your original shot, your second shot to get the b...

Johnson and the recommendation at the end of next week is, yeah, we think johnson & johnson folks ought to get a booster two months after the original shot, go with that, because its going to take a while for them to sort out what should johnson & johnson folks get eventually. should they be mixing and matching? should they get a pfizer or moderna shot? as you alluded, ana what, this small study found of about 450 people what, it found was that folks who got johnson & johnson were better off get...

U.K. Virus ‘Out of Control’; Cuomo Warns of Spread: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/20/2020 (Bloomberg) -- More than 16 million Britons are required to stay at home as a full lockdown came into force Sunday in London and southeast England, part of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s effort to contain an “out of control” mutation of the coronavirus. The U.K. reported the most Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic. European countries responded by suspending travel links. The U.S. ...

U.K. Virus ‘Out of Control’; Cuomo Warns of Spread: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/20/2020 More than 16 million Britons are required to stay at home as a full lockdown came into force Sunday in London and southeast England, part of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s effort to contain an “out of control” mutation of the coronavirus. The U.K. reported the most Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic. European countries responded by suspending travel links. The U.S. doesn’t need t...

U.K. Virus ‘Out of Control’; Cuomo Warns of Spread: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/20/2020 (Bloomberg) -- More than 16 million Britons are required to stay at home as a full lockdown came into force Sunday in London and southeast England, part of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s effort to contain an “out of control” mutation of the coronavirus. The U.K. reported the most Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic. European countries responded by suspending travel links. The U.S. ...

Moderna to Begin Delivery; London Lockdown Ordered: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/19/2020 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a full lockdown on London and large parts of southeast England in a desperate attempt to stop a new strain of coronavirus that is spreading rapidly in the U.K. The nation surpassed 2 million total infections. The newly-approved Moderna vaccine will begin distribution across the U.S. starting Sunday, after a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel ...