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Announcing a new date. and so now what we're learning is that that discussion has been going on inside the white house too. apparently what seems to be at issue here is that the only company that has applied to use their shot as a booster is pfizer, and the fda, their advisers are having a meeting september 17th. usually if that group says yes, gives a thumbs up, the cdc usually does too and then it's a go. but not everyone in the united states got pfizer. many people got moderna and a smaller group also got johnson & johnson. so what seems to be happening now is that some top officials are th...

The other reason they could argue is what's clearly happen, in people who have gotten two doses of moderna or pfizer vaccine, there is to some extent an erosion in neutralizing antibodies which is associated with a lesser protection against asymptomatic infection or mildly symptomatic infection, but do we really need to boost antibodies so we can be protected from asymptomatic infection or mildly symptomatic infection or is the more important focus making sure the unvaccinated get vaccinated. certainly states with higher vaccine rates have lower hospitalizations and death. that's states in the...

Systems haven't mounted the same immune response against the virus. >> vin, these boosters are only for those that got pfizer or moderna. what about people that got johnson & johnson vaccine? >> that's an important point. i am a firm believer we should allow those individuals to get a second shot now, not waiting a few months to finish the clinical trial. johnson & johnson is coming out with a two dose study in the next month, hopefully will have clarity for the 13 million that first got the shot. you bring up an important point. let me zoom out and say it is important we focus on data that we...

But one of the things that's fueling his approval was this pandemic performance. and now that we see this surge of the day or night and the arguing between the states, and the petty policies that have him going after texas and florida ny are seeing that pfizer vaccines are less effective and to a degree moderna as well, less effective against the delta variant. meaning that hospitalizations are down, fatalities are down, but if you actually having break through disease it's diminishing by the month. ains the majority of the people with the break through got pfizer. brian: pfizer more than mode...

Got pfizer or moderna or johnson & johnson vaccine. not for those of us who got a great response because we're worried that the vaccine might have worn off a little bit. we haven't seen that yet hallie. >> dr. patel, you worked at the white house under president obama. what does it say to you about where we are in the pandemic that this has to be recommended at all? >> yeah. the great news is that there were not conversations in the white house about this until the fda did give kind of the green light and we're waiting for the specific language, but what the white house has had to deal with ar...