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Increase in that immunity that we are looking for. and we see that both moderna and johnson & johnson were approved to move forward. >> so, they all had relatively impressive efficacy rates. johnson & johnson had one at 72% versus moderna and sizer, 94 and 95%. now, to understand that, with a booster, johnson & johnson is 100% with efficacy. now, thats pretty impressive. and if thats the case, you know, many people are kind of wondering why didnt they just use two dose from the beginning. >> tha...

People have received one dose of johnson & johnson would be better off receiving an mrna vaccine probably more specifically moderna if they get a third shot. >> what about the people that have pfizer, would it be okay to get a moderna booster shot then? >> that is what we are going to see today and tomorrow as the fda officials review the data. right now, we know that only a pfizer booster is approved for people who have received pfizer for their primary series but we may eventually see that you...

But the real sit im not and i dont think very many of us are. and we just want to have our lives back. >> the leading theory is that this could be similar to a technology that russia had used during the cold war to spy on the u.s. embassy. later used to collect data from computers and cell phones, but now a hostile country may have turned it into a weapon. russia as well as cuba deny any involvement. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >> wow. that wraps up this hour. im stephanie ruehl. >> g...

Effective. for more on this and other covid news im joined by cal perry, nbc news correspondent and meagan fitzgerald also an nbc news correspondent in chicago. meagan, explain what the study means when it says its okay to mix and match covid boosters. >> reporter: so jose, what this nih study says is that its safe and this has not been peer reviewed but for example if you received the moderna vaccine its safe to get a pfizer booster shot and vice versa, if you had pfizer you can get a moderna s...

Confusion over boosters. tell us what we need to know about the third shot. >> so its called a booster but it may be a third dose. were learning so much about vaccines and it may be another primary series includes a third dose. so far we have the pfizer vaccine approved for a booster, and most likely well see boosters for both moderna and johnson & johnson. the outstanding question is what is the follow-up booster from johnson & johnson, given that mix and match study has shown that a follow-up ...

Maybe september 20th and setting a date certain may have been a bit premature. and it might be that people who got moderna and therefore might need to get the moderna booster, maybe that will need to be postponed a little bit. but i also think that at this point we really should be empowering patients to be making the best decision together with their physicians about when a booster shot is most appropriate for them. right now we do have data where we now know that the pfizer vaccine is fully ap...

Simple terms. if youve been vaccinated, it is very likely if you will be offered a booster in the coming weeks or months. might not happen the week of september 20th. but no matter what vaccine you got, it is very likely that one will be coming your way in the coming weeks or months. according to experts who ive been talking to, they think that the real damage here actually is for folks who are unvaccinated completely. these folks dont trust the government. they dont trust what they say. and now...

Possible stumbling block? >> reporter: so, wolf, what we were told several weeks ago is that there would be boosters offered to people starting the week of september 20th. as you said, it turns out this might only be true for folks who received pfizer. thats because, to put it simply, the moderna data, at least at this point, does not look ready for there to be a booster rollout the week of september 20th. so, for pfizer folks, there is a meeting of fda advisers september 17th to go over the dat...

All together. >> they should take a look at the numbers because most of the people who have covid in our hospitals right now who have died from covid, they are the unvaccinated, not the vaccinated. dr. leana wen is joining us. dr. wen, thanks so much for joining us. as you just heard, moderna did submit some data to the fda for approval of a third booster dose of their vaccine. they did that today. do you think this will affect the white houses deadline of september 20th to approve an additional...

>> well, heres the issue. our federal regulators are only going to be issuing the recommendations based on the data that they have. and the pfizer is not going to be studying getting two doses of pfizer and then a moderna booster. and so all that the federal regulators are going to be able to say is if you got two doses of pfizer, you can get a third dose of pfizer. eventually theyll be able to say if you get a dose of moderna, you can get a third dose of moderna. why should people who got moder...