pouring in. the pressure is on and the gloves are off. john, obviously i wasn t clear enough for you to understand this. here s a man that spent more than $20 million of his own money to try to buy that seat. you and donald trump were the masterful covid deniers. you re poorer and less safe because of kathy hochul and extreme policies. with 13 days left, candidates from both parties are scratching, clawing for every last vote. and there s going to be a lot of votes if the pre-election day ballot numbers are any indication. let s start in pennsylvania today. democrat john fetterman and republican mehmet oz facing off in their only debate, some accommodations were made as fetterman recovers from a stroke but both candidates had some bumpy answers. cnn s jessica dean is in harrisburg for us. how are the candidates cleaning things up today? reporter: even more than cleaning up the two are zeroing in on where they think the weaknesses are for the other campaigns from l
johnson & johnson vaccine, a competitor to the pfizer and moderna ones but still the columbia one had pretty much the same findings but the bottom line here, the booster out there still does good. it will keep you from getting very, very sick. it could keep you from dying. so you definitely want to get it but it may not be at the better than the booster that you would have gotten, say, six months ago. so what does it say about the future of these pfizer/moderna covid vaccines? right, because that s what they were testing was pfizer and moderna and actually the very high ranking fda official was talking to stat, a news outlet, and was frank about it. i was surprised. the fda doesn t usually say stuff like this. what he said was we need to look at other types of vaccines and there are those out there that might provide more durable immunity. there have been such concerns that these pfizer and moderna vaccines while they re
j&j boosters. what s your reaction to that and walk us through the other treatments potentially like the covid pfizer pill. i think they look at the oefd the potentially severe side effect of the j&j and we re looking at it. are we getting more of an effect, and the answer is know. the data continues to come in showing that. as a result, i think if at all possible, we should get the mrna vaccines, the pfizer and moderna ones, rather than j&j. good move. so what we re seeing now, cases surging in washington, d.c., have the highest number of covid cases they ve had than at any point in the pandemic dating all the way back to 20. is it your sense that the infections coming from the omicron variant are milder than what we ve seen from delta and other ones? one reason that they appear to be milder is that a lot of new cases are actually reinfections. people have already had covid-19