Vaccines for our children as young as 5 a good idea. dr. saphier joins us now. good morning, ainsley. ainsley: good morning. let s tackle j and j a lot of americans who have already been vaccinated they are worried because they have gotten the j and j. what do they do when it comes to booster shots. ainsley, what s taking over the news of the morning is that the fda, now the cdc has put forth new clinical preferences. not any strong wording but really they have said that they recommend that adults receive the mrna vaccine pfizer and moderna over johnson & johnson. pretty par for the pandemic is that he they re months behind canada and several european nations because as there were reports of this very specific clotting disorder, other countries decided to tailor their recommendations. what it turns out data when you look at it 4 per 1 million patients who get the johnson & johnson vaccine are developing these rare clotting disorders.
Mrna. so there may be other advantages. so the team that s doing those booster studies is going to be publishing additional studies to look at it later on. so possibly the one place where you might want to make a switch is if off single dose of the j&j vaccine and you re at risk for clotting disorders, if you re pregnant or susceptible to thrombotic events or birth control, you might want to switch to a mrna. the biggest question i get by far is those overseas who don t have any access to the vaccines used in the u.s. and use a china or russian vaccine, what should they do when they come to the united states. thanks for that. so transitioning to another aspect of what we re constantly talking about is schools. when it comes to schools, we are learning more about dealing with covid exposure in a different way. instead of quarantine after all