today more mixed messages on covid boosters. cnn has learned that some top federal health officials now want the white house to scale back its booster plan, which is due to roll out in just a couple of weeks. cnn s elizabeth cohen is here with us. what have you learned, elizabeth? ana, when the white house announced a few weeks ago that the booster rollout was going to start september 20th, it had a lot of people scratching their heads about why they were making that announcement when the fda and cdc had not weighed in on it. that s usually not the order of things. usually the fda and cdc weigh in and then there is an announcement. and so what we re hearing from sources is that the issue is while pfizer has applied to start this booster rollout and while we have data on pfizer and there s a meeting on september 17th of fda advisers to talk about pfizer, that s not true of the other two vaccines. so let s take a look at how many americans have gotten which vaccine. so as you can see,
clearly most people have gotten that, 54% of americans. 38% of americans who are vaccinated got moderna and only 8% have gotten johnson & johnson. so the question golf becomes ev pfizer looks good to start rolling out third doses, what about people who got moderna and j&j? that s a huge chunk of people, what about them? it sounds like what we re hearing is some folks within the biden administration are saying hold on, maybe we need to pull the reins on this. this has been so confusing, though. what does it say about the messaging? it was just yesterday that dr. fauci was talking about basically, look, it seems like now is the time for boosters. it s not great. messaging has been so crucial in this entire vaccine endeavor, with such a huge chunk of americans saying no to the vaccine because they have heard misinformation. messaging has been crucial. it is not great that there is