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And then a moderna for their booster or whatever. if you had to vote on mixing and matching booster doses today, would you vote yes? >> again, it all depends on the data. you want robust data so people can feel comfortable if you get a johnson & johnson vaccine and boost with an mrna-containing vaccine that you have clearly evidence of a higher neutralizing antibody titer, et cetera. those studies are currently being done. i hope we can get them in hand soon because i think the public really needs direction on how to proceed here. >> the fda should rule on the moderna and johnson & johnson boo...

Booster, you'll be able to get it, people took that to heart. my patients, many of my colleague's patients took that to heart. it was virtually impossible. you see these from the vaccine experts on the advisory committees. for them to do anything other than what they did. it was basically say for the same high risk group of people, if you got two shots of moderna, we'll give you a reduced dosing of a third shot of moderna to remain consistent. you also heard that the data showing that there was waning immunity if you got two shots of moderna, even if you were high risk, wasn't there. with pfiz...

Too late. >> one of the things we know is direct experience with covid and with death from covid is a predictor of likely to vaccinate. the unfortunate fact is as more people have that direct experience, that's a very high cost to pay to increase the likelihood of [ inaudible ]. >> what is your data showing, dr. jameson, about why people still resist? >> we know that those people who have high confidence in science and the institutions that communicate science, fda, cdc, nih and a spokesperson such as dr. fauci are far more likely to vaccinate, far less likely to have misinformation but we kno...

And who do they call they call their physician friend and say how do i gain the system. >> reporter: meantime, international pressure has been growing on the u.s. not to widely distribute booster shots while much of the world still waits for first doses. during a virtual covid summit today, president biden announced the u.s. will buy half a billion pfizer vaccines and donate them to low-income countries calling the pandemic an all hands on deck global situation. >> i'm proud that we've gone from two million americans being fully vaccinated when i first took office on january 20th to 182 millio...

And that second j&j shot offered 100% protection against severe disease. regulators will also review data showing a johnson & johnson booster given six months after the first dose produced even higher antibody levels, as much as 12 times the initial level. >> we have a growing body of evidence that a second shot is going to be important. now it's going to be up to the fda to figure out when and how that happens. >> reporter: the johnson & johnson news coming on the eve of an fda decision and a critical cdc meeting where they will decide the fate of pfizer boosters for millions of americans, in...