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Infectious disease resource programs in the country. we haven't talked about them. they have a vaccine that looks like a soccer ball. it's not the mrna type. it has so many targets that it can cover all the variants as they emerge. it's in stage 2 trials. it's months away but shows a new technology. going to be in the future. >> reasons to be hopeful there ahead of christmas. dr. siegel, thanks so much. >> thanks, gillian. >> moments from now, the president's covid response will hold a briefing. this comes after a rare moment when president biden praised former president trump. take a listen. ...

I don't think there's any conclusive information right now that says that an immune response when you do what i'm calling a complete vaccination, not just a booster because i think now complete vaccinations are three vaccines of an mrna type of vaccine. so we don't really know how long that is going to last. so i know they're being awfully cautious, but i think they may be jumping the gun a little bit. and people that are triple-vaccinated, i think should be very comfortable that they are protected against serious illness. >> so, doctor, i do have to ask what's going to happen to the unvaccina...

Anned a know virus as opposed to an mrna type of vaccine. what we saw is that over time immunity waned. so if you got johnson & johnson, and i gave you the johnson & johnson booster, you might have four times increase in your immunity. but if i gave you pfizer, you'd have 35 times increase. moderna, 76 times the number of antibodies that you'd get with the johnson & johnson booster. so that makes a lot of sense that you might want to switch to a different vaccine. if you got pfizer or moderna, i got moderna, i'm going to stick with moderna. that's what i would recommend you stick with what you...

Can possibly get needles into arms get vaccinated as soon as possible, brian. >> and i also want to ask you about the other news this week, and that is fda on the verge of making it possible to mix and match vaccine brands. in that subset, are there combinations that are better? if you have a baseline two-shot moderna, is it better for you if you get the pfizer? if you have the j&j, is any booster the best option? >> well, let me start with the j&j situation. if you've had the single j&j shot, which is what was recommended, a single dose, it is probably going to be recommended that all those p...