received two shots and what they saw is that the rates of confirmed infection dropped by 11.3 times. and the rate of severe illness by 19.5 times. but again, this was just starting at 12 days after the booster. which may not be very much time. the big question is what does that sort of protection look like long term. are you getting a lot of protection and really bolstering up the walls of protection for a short period of time and then it sort of wains off over time again or does it actually create a longer durable level of protection as a result of the boost.or does it actually creat longer durable level of protection as a result of the boost. they don t know that yet and i think that that will come up at this fda meeting as well. and we talk a lot about israel and it is an interesting place to look at because throughout this pandemic, they have bit ah. they are at 63% vaccination in israel, they have been boosting
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pfizer and moderna have submitted ed that seems to suggest that six months after the initial round of vaccination would be the right time to get a booster. that s an update. and also, that there s a consideration of simultaneously authorizing boosters for folks who got j&j as well. i think there s ample evidence that vaccine effectiveness wains over time, certainly less than a year, from six to eight months and boosters can t come soon enough. compromised people, reaching out to folks who are particularly immunocompromised and we re administering those boosters already. we ve talked about how you handled this inside your own hospital to get your own people vaccinated. you put in a mandate at your hospital. you went from 55% vaccination