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Also endorsed moderna's half dose booster. >> and the cdc will also meet later this week to discuss more specifics like who should be getting their shots. if they follow the fda panels recommendation, 100 million americans could be eligible for boosters soon. >> nbc news correspondent steven romo is in new york city with the very latest on all of. this steven, good morning. >> good morning, kendis. yes, sites like this here at the american museum of natural history are already seeing more people show up for boosters and to get their first doses of the vaccine. and even more people, as you ment...

A new study shows some people might be better off getting another vaccine than their original shot. cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now with that. elizabeth? >> john, good morning. so these fda advisers, these are external advisers, mostly folks who are scientists at universities are meeting to look at the data behind a moderna booster. should folks who got a moderna booster -- a shot, rather, back in the fall of the -- back in the winter or the spring, more than six months ago, should they be getting a booster. look at the basic questions that these fda advisers ar...

Elizabeth cohen, who's following today's meeting for us. elizabeth, what are we expecting? >> ana, you might remember that last month, this same discussion went on about the pfizer booster, and now, many folks who are more than six months past their second pfizer shot are eligible for a booster. so, the discussion today is about moderna recipients. it's a very similar discussion with a few twists. let's take a look at what moderna is asking the fda to do. so, moderna is asking for authorization for a half dose booster. they say that that's plenty. that's enough. that gets antibodies going for ...