still immuno compromised am. it depends. you can measure that. you can see how many of these types of immune cells they actually have in their system. they re often sort of followed along for that specifically whereas people who may take immuno suppressant drugs for transplant, for example, some people may take these type of drugs because they have auto immune d immune diseases. 10 million people is a big group of people but who specifically is that going to be? i think that s what part of the fda and cdc will drill down on. there s some guidance on what people with one dose of the johnson & johnson should do, but would an immune yo compromised person who received one dose of the j&j vaccine i assume now they d be able to get a dose of pfizer or moderna? it s really important for the fda or cdc to come out with strong recommendations that certain groups of immune yo
it is the next step in this. once they ve changed the authorization which right now is for two shots then the cdc has to vote on that and make a recommendation about whether or not to follow that authorization from the fda. and conveniently the cdc does have a meeting with its vaccine advisers scheduled for friday, and so there could be a vote coming out of that. so you could see this start to move quickly for some of these immunocompromised people waiting to hear from the fda and cdc whether or not they need a third shot of these two dose vaccines. what about boostersr for the general population? is this kind of just a first step so it s not everybody all at once? reporter: they re kind of considering two different things here. for people who are immune yo compromised concern they need a third shot is because they never developed a response to the vaccine that someone who is not