Second Moderna News Today

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Vaccine booster shots. a recent n.i.h. study finds those vaccinated with johnson & johnson had a stronger antibody response from pfizer or modernas booster. the fda adviser expected to consider a j&j booster today after giving moderna the nod on its booster yesterday. advisers recommended a half dose for people who got their second moderna shot at least six months ago and like pfizer for now, this is just for older patients or people in high-risk jobs. the cdc still needs to give final authoriza...

This, the second moderna shot made me very ill for two and a half days. it makes me hesitant to get the booster. are my chances of a severe reaction to the booster same or different than those of the average person who did not experience bad side effects? >> yes, i can see the viewers apprehension. so, without knowing specifically what those symptoms were, i cant offer a comment about whether she will have the same or worse symptoms. but what we do know is that unless you have had an anaphylacti...

>> the original vaccines that were derived were designed to broadly react against the covid-19 virus, and overtime these viruses have evolved, have mutated, led to these voirarian. there may be a difference in the immune response to it. we know, for example, both the pfizer and moderna vaccine work against the current strain of virus that is out there, the delta strain. and what has happened is that your tides have fallen below the level, so the vaccine is effective against that particular varia...

Why has the pfizer booster already been approved while the moderna and j&j ones are still awaiting their approvals, doctor? >> yeah, so from my experience having served on the advisory committee and been the chairman of the advisory committee, big pharma doesnt play into this. this is a decision made solely by the fda. and i can only guess or surmise that data was missing from the moderna -- from one of the submissions and needed to be bolstered or needed to have more information given to the fd...

Vaccination card, the one that is given to you after you get your first and second vaccines so the pharmacist or whoever is giving the vaccine can check to see what vaccine you received. but you do not necessarily have to go back to the original site where you received your primary immunizations. >> and then on this issue of mixing and matching, jackie asks, can i get the pfizer booster if i had the moderna vaccine? can she? >> yeah, another excellent question that the fda and both the acip are ...

Decision was made last month, and yes, for some people, you should be getting booster shots if you got pfizer more than six months ago. now the discussion is going on among vaccine advisers to the fda about moderna. folks who got moderna more than six months ago, should they get a booster? tomorrow theyll have the same discussion for folks who got johnson & johnson. my sources tell me that the johnson & johnson discussion tomorrow could get pretty complicated, but the one from moderna today shou...

Vaccines are having declining efficacy against getting the infection if, its not clear they have declining efficacy against severe illness or hospitalizations. theres some early data out of israel that may hospitalizations and severe -- may suggest hospitalizations and severe illness go up in time, but this was preparing early because in order to mobilize millions of doses, you need to start early. so the government did pre-purchase 200 million of the moderna vaccine in preparation for giving bo...

No one has reached out, they need to follow up with these victims so that they can learn from it, make modifications to the vaccine, better treatments, postvaccination. laura: you have immunity so you cant sue them. anyone else you know have an adverse reaction? >> my nephew, my 20-year-old healthy nephew ended up with perry myocarditis after his second moderna vaccine as well. laura: i could talk to you for an hour about this. it is important for everyone to hear these stories. more vaccine new...

Americans and urging them to get the shot when they can. there is also news tonight, new guidance from the cdc on whether to open more schools and abcs stephanie ramos leading us off. >> reporter: after weeks of frustration over a slow vaccine rollout and desperate calls for more supply, the president saying help is on the way. >> we will both increase the supply in the short term by more than 15%, and give our states and local partners more certainty about when the deliveries will arrive. >> re...