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In january had a more than twofold increased risk for breakthrough infections versus those vaccinated in april. >> but the question is not about how the vaccines are doing today or last month. it's really how are they going to do this winter. >> reporter: the president of moderna telling nbc news their vaccine also shows waning protection against infection over time >> your data shows protection is dipping, but americans who are fully vaccinated are still protected from hospitalization. so why are boosters necessary? >> we do know as we get to a very large number of breakthrough cases, some of...

Variant is on its way. dr. scott gottlieb says a spike in cases will likely coincide with the reopening of schools but he doesn't think the northeast will be hit as hard as the southern u.s. mostly because of higher vaccination rates. gottlieb also believes more employees will eventually require their workers to get both the flu and covid vaccines. ahead of an important meeting on friday with vaccine advisers to the u.s. food and drug administration, a new agency document says the benefit of covid boosters may be limited. it is one perspective of many as advisers prepare to hear conflicting ...

Program. they started it about six weeks ago. they say it's going very well. let's take a listen to my discussion with with dr. ballster. up until the booster shots israel waited for the fda and the cdc to chime in, but you guys just did booster without the fda and the cdc chiming in. >> i think there was a different level of urgency felt in the two country. decisions by the fda have been made and we could have followed them. but in the situation we were at, it was obvious that action was needed urgently. decisions need to be made. >> so, what we're going to find out on friday, is do the fda's...

But i do want to bring in cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen who has new details on the decision. this is not going to be an easy decision for the fda. >> jake, when fda vaccine advisers meet on friday to discuss boosters for covid-19 vaccines, well, it is sure to be contentious and perhaps even somewhat bitter. last month president biden came out and talked about the booster program, even gave a date for next week to start that program up. and that has made many scientists quite angry. they say the president of the united states should not be talking about something until fda ...

Lot of debate among these fda vaccine advisers about the best approach. should the u.s. have a booster program or not. jim, erica? >> all right, elizabeth, thank you. i do think we just are learning a little more about what we're supposed to hear from pfizer on friday. is that right? >> that's right. we are hearing a little bit more. we know that pfizer will probably present data that's going to say, look, we gave a bunch of people third shots and their antibodies went up. and they're going to say that's a good thing. their antibodies went down months after the second shot, and we gave a third...