meet the press, dr. rochelle walensky addressed booster shot confusion. we saw data from the nih on mix and match that antibody levels for mixing and matching were very high. if you re boosted with j&j, you actually do quite well as well. any one of these vaccines can really be used to boost any one of the others. joining me now nbc news medical contributor. good to see you, my friend. lots of questions. millions more people are eligible for boosters. so how do you decide which one to get? is it better to get a different vaccine? and where do you go to either get it or get the information you need? alex, i think what i d like to do is divide it into what the nih study told us and what we still don t know.
president biden s problems piling up while trying to move forward on his domestic agenda. plus climate emergency. extreme weather events destroying communities and costing lives. how can america s mayors prepare for a reality. and booster shot confusion. the white house shifting its plans to push americans to get another shot as it scrambles to get the pandemic under control. as the united states celebrates labor day, president biden is trying to put an incredibly challenging summer in the rearview mirror. he s facing multiple crisis as he tries to advance his agenda. there are troubling signs on the the pandemic. new cases, hospitalizations and deaths all multiple times higher than they were at the beginning of the summer. there is also confusion around the rollout of booster shots which is set to begin just two weeks from today. the u.s. also dealing with
breakthrough infections, 99.99% of fully vaccinated people have not been hospitalized or died. that is a very important fact. now, the biden administration announced booster shots for all american adults starting september 20th. but that plan might have to be scaled back to only include pfizer vaccine recipients. the fda and cdc want more data before approving a third moderna shot. joining me to clarify some of the booster shot confusion is dr. peter hotez from the baylor college of medicine, who also wrote preventing the next pandemic: vaccine diplomacy in a time of antiscience. dr. hotez, great to see you again. we were just mentioning the biden administration talking about, announcing this plan to have the booster shots available by september 20th but now that plan may have to be scaled back. what are your thoughts on this,
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