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[ scream ] micheal myers is still alive. tonight, our family will kill him. i want to take his mask off and see the life leave his eyes. the latest now on the coronavirus pandemic. booster vaccines from moderna and j&j have been recommended by the fda, both are expected to be formally approved by the centers for disease control in the coming weeks. right now pfizer is the only option for a single shot booster. joining me now is dr. chris parnell, public health

The booster group than in the nonbooster group by a factor of 11.3 and the rate of severe illness was lower by a factor of 1.5. lets take a closer look at that slide. as can you see going from the left to the right are the days since the booster vaccination. and as you can see somewhere around 12 days from that third shot booster, you see an increase in protection against confirmed infection in the booster group compared with the nonbooster group. next slide. what about severe disease? here agai...

Delta variant and youre looking at different age groups, 18 to 55 and 65 to 85. just concentrate for a moment on the blue. one month after dose two the titer was 241. it went up dramatically after dose three to 1,321. if one looks at the 65 to 85 it wept from 123 to 1479. thats laboratory data. lets look at clinical data. this is a study recently published in the "new england journal of medicine." in israel people aged 60 years or older who received a second dose of mrna at least five months ear...

The most vulnerable are those unvaccinated. i encourage you to get vaccinated to protect your community, your family and yourself. thank you. i will now turn things over to dr. fauci. >> thank you, dr. walensky. dr. walensky has delineated the third shot booster for people who received the pfizer regimen. i would like to show on this first slide to try to answer the third question what the third shot booster of the mrna vaccines do for the immune response and clinical effect. with regard to neut...