johnson, determining that no matter the booster, all study participants saw a substantial uptick in antibody levels after a booster shot. and for those who got the johnson & johnson shot, the study finding antibody levels were higher if they followed it up with moderna or pfizer versus j&j. while this is really exciting, it s based on very small sample sizes. so it gives us a window into, you know, data that we ll see over the coming weeks. reporter: but antibodies are only one part of immune protection, and the study did not measure precisely how well each booster protected a person. mixing vaccine boosters is among the data to be presented over the next two days, as an fda advisory panel votes on whether to authorize moderna and j&j s boosters for those 18 and over. tonight, the biden administration s booster rollout off to a good start. by the end of today, we estimate that over 7 million americans will have gotten their booster shot, including about 3 million just in the last
says, because of collective bargaining, i can t have a mandate like they have at the sheriff s department in los angeles. but what he has done to encourage officers, especially the young ones, is to say, i would like you the fill out a living will. many of those young officers are like, what is a living will? he explains to them, if you get coronavirus, we ve seen statistics where people die within three days. so you have to have a living will. the idea is to sort of starlet them into reality and he says, in some cases, that has been very successful. jose? kerry sanders and heidi przybyla, thank you very much for being with me this morning. for more on all of the covid news, i m joined by dr. lilian abel, chief infectious disease specialist at the university of miami health system. doctor, good to see you. let s start with a booster shot rollout. the new york times writes that the booster rollout has complicated efforts to persuade the unvaccinated to get their first round of shots
booster shots. when he said we re ready to do the boost we just have to wait for the science to catch up to us what he s saying is simply when the science says to launch we ll be ready. when the science says launch and people are i m not ready to launch. president biden s not going to be a guy twiddling the thumbs why when the scientists say launch he s going to launch. i wonder if you believe that this was just a communications issue. if the lessons learned about how to address the communication issues moving forward and looking past this moment assuming we get to the future and the situation like this, what are the lessons to learn about how to set expectations from the beginning? i agree. the communications have been a severe problem not just with the booster rollout but the pandemic
and i think that this tricky issue of the booster rollout demonstrates that we gravitate to these fruits of bio medicine to save us but america produced vaccines faster than anyone had dared hoped for and plateaued 38th in the world in vaccination rates. this death rate from covid per capita higher after all adults eligible for vaccines than many other countries had before vaccines were available and that should alarm us, shake us to the core and tell us that yes these things are miraculous and make a difference but in a society where millions of people cannot access health care, where so many people live on the edge and don t trust the government to provide for them then of course you might have vaccines but not vaccinations which is what
we will not get another surge if we successfully get the overwhelming proportion of people vaccinated dr. fauci, there are signs showing the booster rollout being confusing. we are seeing people not on the original list of eligible individuals to get the booster shots. what is your message to the american public about boosters when you look at the data it does look like there is waning immunity certainly against infection and mild to moderate disease. the cdc made a recommendation of this essential 65 and over, people i long-term care facilities, age groups for people who hav underlying conditions and those in certain occupations that would put them at risk that s not the way it s playing out in the real world people are getting the shots who don t fit any of those categories that s correct. the reason is we re dealing with a moving target there is interpretation by