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President biden said on august 18th when he first started, with he first started talking about this booster roll out. >> pending approval from the food and drug administration, the cdc's committee of outside experts will be ready to start these booster -- this booster program through the week of september 20. >> reporter: so, you'll notice the president biden named a date. i think perhaps the biden administration has learned that that is often not a great idea. because things change and then people get confused. so i'm going to give you the bottom line here. the bottom line is that anyone who ...

Ago and highest since early march. the delta variant still spreading among and killing the unvaccinated. health officials plans to roll out booster shots has hit a hitch. pfizer has passed its study information to the fda but moderna hasn't yet. >> what you might see is rather than the simultaneous rolling out of the booster program of both dose products, you may be sequential by about a week or two. i don't think that that is a major issue there, but we would have liked to have seen it happen all together simultaneously. >> the completely avoidable resurgence of covid compounded by fallout fr...

Be durable. >> so israel started its booster program on july 30th. you don't have to be any particular age, anyone can get it, as long as you are five months or more past your second vaccination. what israel found, is those who had been vaccinated in january had more than twice of risk of breakthrough infection. they found that the booster, that third shot, reduces the odds of intex 70% to 84%, and in people age 60 and over, the booster decreased the relative risk of seen san diego by more than tenfold. so that meeting on september 17th, that the pfizer folks will be presenting this israel dat...

Pfizer or vice versa. that is possible. so the bottom line here is that for anyone who is fully vaccinated and enough time has passed, say five months, six months, seven months, eight months somewhere in there, you could get a booster in the coming weeks or months. it will most likely be offered and available to you, not the week of september 20th. but it will happen. let's take a listen to dr. fauci. >> pfizer one of the companies with the mrna has gotten the information has been examined and things look like they're ready to go. moderna might be behind that and if they are what you might see...

Going to give this the green light and things will move forward pretty much as previously thought. okay. that's good news. you mentioned israel, so let's talk a little bit more about what we're seeing in israel. you've got approval there for boosters ongoing, right? since august 1st, when they started this, with 60-year-olds and above and then on down to 12-year-olds and above, they've given boosters to about 30% of their population, but then if you look at these numbers, you've still got cases in israel at record highs. do you anticipate that's going to drop significantly once a majority of t...