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People be getting the pfizer booster lot. >> no. they should not. there's absolutely no data supporting that moderna or j&j recipients would do well or there's safety behind getting a pfizer shot at this point. we know we have data around the corner coming on moderna boosters which will likely be a lower dose than the original moderna series. we also have a press release about j&j boosters that was really promising, but the even better news from moderna and j&j recipients there's less evidence that those two have waned in efficacy against the delta variant than there is from pfizer and even fr...

>> reporter: yeah. reporters are walking no the room to watch the president get this booster shot on cameras, of course. the reason that's happening on camera is the white house wants to use this moment to send a message to the rest country for those eligible based on what the cdc and the fda have authorized so far that they should be getting their booster shot. obviously the president is over 65 years of age so he qualifies for this, and so this will be his third dose of the pfizer vaccine after he got that first one last december. he got a second one in january and now he'll be getting the t...

Boosters for now. you're eligible for a booster if it's been six months since your second pfizer shot and if you fall into one of these categories, people over 65, which is hard to acknowledge. adults -- i'm only joke, folks. adults with certain underlying health conditions like diabetes and obesity and those are at increased risk of covid-19 because of where you work or where you live like health care workers, teachers, first responders, grocery store clerks. if you fall in any of these categories you're eligible for the booster. i know it doesn't look like it, but i am over 65. i wish -- way...

Members of the nypd in the hospital, all unvaccinated. >> there is a connection between vaccination and hospitalization rates. take west virginia. lowest vaccination rate and the highest vaccination rate. >> we are going through the peak and it looks like we're starting to turn down. >> reporter: the delta driven surge is still rolling around the country, but -- >> i think by thanksgiving it will have run the course across the whole country. it should decline on the back end of the delta wave and we get back to more normalcy when vaccines will be available for children as well and people could...

Gotten pfizer, not moderna or j&j and more than six months from the second shot. now let's take a look at other people who are eligible for their third shot. so again if you're six months out from the second shot, over age 65, if you're a front line worker like a doctor or a teacher, if you're an adult who lives in a high rick setting like say a prison setting and this is a big one, adults with underlying conditions such as obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes and there is a long list. that is a lot of people. so 42% or so of the united states is obese. so right there, 42% qualify for boo...