lights for moderna vaccine recipients, if you re 56 or older, 18 or older in a high risk group and you get that booster six months or the second doze is eight months. and j&j, two months after the first shot. what impact does this have on the covid trend lines and dynamics? that s the question to. what extent will we affect the arc of this pandemic but giving the case of mnra vaccines a third vaccine to people who have had two. if you look at the hospital of pennsylvania where we take care of adults and a children s hospital, all those children and adults in the intensive care unit are not there because they haven t gotten a third dose, they are there because they haven t had any dose, and if we re going have a good result with this pandemic we need to find a way to vaccinate the unvaccinated.
a big boost in your virus neutralizing antibodies and even get what is called entaupe broadening where you re actually really resilient against the variants. that s the message we have to get out. if you ve been infected and recovered, it s a roll of the dice. you don t know if you re protected against the delta surge and getting vaccinated will certainly guarantee that. just to simplify that even more, how do you compare vaccine immunity to previous infection immunity? i think being vaccinated is a much safer bet because we know that people receive two doses of the mnra vaccines, now we re up to three doses. we ll have really high levels of virus neutralizing antibody whereas if you re infected and recovered, it s a roll of the dice. dr. hotez said there is no blood test or method to determine who would get a big
johnson 71%. they re all good at keeping people out of the hospital but how should people interpret these differences? you said it s in the 70s. that still does provide protection. obviously, it s not as good as 90s, but, you know. yeah, i think the committee focused a lot on hospitalizations and deaths and i understand that but i think there could have been more consideration to long covid and the devastating neurological implications and i think that s got to be factored into this. with the moderna vaccine, it may be holding up a little bit better and part of the reason is maybe there is more mnra in the vaccine than the pfizer and space it an extra week account. that may account for it. moderna is going to apply or has applied for a third immunization as well and it will be considered separately. we ll also be looking at a second immunization, second dose of the j&j vaccine which i
what we need to prove is whether that second dose of the j&j vaccine has a clinical having a better protection against mild or moderate or severe disease. we don t have those data yet. those data are being generated and hopefully we ll know soon. i wouldn t give the second dose yet, no. those of us who got moderna or pfizer, should we wait eight months to get that third booster shot or should it really go down to six months, which is the case in england, germany, israel for example? i think right now it should be neither. on monday and tuesday, august the 30th and 31st, the cdc is going to be meeting to review data to see if there is good evidence suggesting the need for a third dose. the goal is protect from serious illness and there is no evidence there is any erosion in protection against serious illness of vaccinated with two doses of mnra vaccine. i would wait.
there isn t a one-size-fits-all answer. there are going to be some who don t want or need a booster in the u.s., but there are others who will need a booster. we re following in the steps of israel, the u.k., germany who are already doing booster shots. this helps us to get in line with other countries. this is all about the mnra vaccine. you re one of the millions who got the j&j shot. do you feel like you re in the dark right now? why aren t we getting guidance on that vaccine? the 13 million of us who got the j&j vaccine, we were told get the first vaccine that was available to you. we actually followed public health guidance at that time and a lot of people are feeling like, well, what about us? the data just aren t fully there for them to make a