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Immunity. i wonder where you see this debate come down. >> jim, i think it's really anyone's call right now. talking to folks who are members of this fda vaccine advisory committee, they really don't know what's going to happen. they say that this has gotten pretty messy actually. it's becomes contentious, this booster shot program. and even there's some bitterness with president biden saying essentially, let's start a booster program. and scientists saying, hold on a minute, don't talk out of turn, mr. president. we need to hear about the science first. so let's look at what the science says....

But the israeli studies suggest that two shots are not sufficient to protect against severe covid-19. and out this hour from the "new england journal of medicine," an israeli study that shows boosters do protect against severe illness. that israeli data is based on their booster program that started on august 1st. they've already given booster shots to millions of people. now, there's another layer to this. we've already talked about shots protecting against severe illness. but would a booster shot protect against in education? we know that sometimes people get two shots of a covid-19 vaccine ...

The u.s. food and drug administration is set for an important meeting with vaccine experts on friday to decide covid-19 booster shots. but so far there have been late sending data to the experts for review with participants receiving their first documents only on monday. a team of israeli scientists will also be at the meeting to share data on their own booster program. now nearly one-third of israel have received their third shot. but even though the country has a head start, one doctor says the u.s. shouldn't rush into approving booster shots. >> we don't need to rush out and get a booster. ...

Says, no, boosters work, boosters do help keep people out of the hospital. israel has had a booster program for six weeks and say it's working quite well. dr. anthony fauci has said repeatedly, look at the israeli data. essentially, boosters are a good idea. this is a real serious debate. we haven't seen this kind of debate on covid really in this way. the fda is scheduled to talk about this. advisers will talk about this in five days. it will be really interesting to see how this plays out. e erica, jim? >> no question, big part of the public health debate. limited resources, how best to use ...

Booster shots. if approved the biden administration is hoping to roll out a booster program a week from today. health officials are relying on studies out of israel which began a booster program last month. cnn elizabeth cohen live in tel aviv with some of the results happening in israel. elizabeth? >> reporter: john, it's really interesting what's been happening here. they've been doing boosters here for more than six weeks. already about a third of the country has gotten them. the israelis are scrupulous about keeping data and the director general of the ministry of health here tells me that...