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Want a shot of pfizer or moderna as a boost, they should be allowed to get that. i'd like to see a formalized process where people are explained the risks and benefits. they recognize that clinical trial of mixing and matching is still underway, but based on what we're seeing, that they should be able to do that off label. >> dr. gupta, if somebody has gotten the one, say you did the second shot with pfizer. would you then go on a pfizer protocol after that and basically then get a second shot, three to four weeks then a third shot eight months later? >> you know, and chuck, this is me specula...

It's the only single-shot vaccine authorized for distribution in the united states and questions about the need and available for second shots have been growing after the cdc has been recommending them for pfizer and moderna. joining me now to discuss more is msnbc medical contributor, dr. vin gupta. dr. gupta, we've been talking about this for a while, the johnson & johnson situation. it's in comparative to pfizer and moderna recipients, it's a small group of folks, but it feels like everything had been geared toward the pfizer and moderna crowd. this is the company putting this out. how quic...

Recommending it and nobody was not, wasn't sure whether it would be, but didn't think it was going to be an unsafe thing for people to do. what do you tell people that decided to do that? >> i think it's the right decision and now with the pfizer vaccine, the fda coming out saying as much, off label uses of vaccine are now possible versus during the eua, this is all of us speculating, us talking about what we'd like to see. now a doctor can say you know what, we can use the pfizer vaccine off label to boost up a one-shot jnj. that is now possible in a way it wasn't just seven days ago. this is...

If you've got one dose jnj, second dose pfizer, it appears based on a global experience, mixing and matching is safe. >> dr. gupta, trying to get a medical opinion on this especially for the johnson & johnson community. dr. gupta, thank you. i'm going to speak with a top medical expert from mississippi in a few minutes who says her state has failed. as the hospital there is become increasingly overwhelmed, icu beds are in extremely short supply. they have a couple. the state next door, alabama, has none. next door, alabama, has none ♪ ♪ i had the nightmare again maxine. the world was out o...

Important for regulators at the fda to understand the optimal time between dose one and two. this study today separated dose one and two of the johnson & johnson doses. so exact same doses. just got two six months apart. of those people they studied, antibody levels shot through the roof after the second dose six months later. the second study that's being published shortly, in the next few weeks by johnson & johnson, is looking at spacing out the doses by two months. it's going to be really important is it two months between the doses? six? but it appears that interval of dosing is going to b...