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This has been a firing line. do you recommend to one of your high risk patients who had the moderna or j&j to get a pfizer booster or try to get moderna or whatever they've got? >> no, listen, vice president harris is in that boat because of their exposure. she should get a booster. i do think these are perfectly good. i wouldn't begrudge my patients for waiting. i want them to get that booster now because we are watching that data for that frail population. we are hearing that moderna which has already filed that american application that should be getting progress in the next

Several weeks. the fda staff reiterated that as well. i would say wait but i'm looking at nursing home patients. health care workers and others. i do think they should get a pfizer booster if they got moderna. i'm in that category myself. >> would you only get pfizer or a third dose of moderna? >> the problem i would have we don't have -- if you're technically, just to be honest with you, moderna has filed for a reduced dose and there's a reason for that so i would be hesitant to say go out and get the third shot exactly like your first and second one. that tells me moderna has data -- we have...

Scientific community. acip and fda only reviewed data for the pfizer biontech vaccine. cdc did continue to monitor the safety and effectiveness of covid-19 vaccines to ensure appropriate recommendations to keep all americans safe. we will with similar urgency evaluate the available data in the coming weeks to swiftly make additional recommendations for other populations at risk and people who received moderna and j&j vaccines. while today's action was an initial step related to booster shots it will not distract us from our most important focus to get as many vaccinated. we will not boost our ...