Moderna could take a bit longer, he cautioned.
“Looks like Pfizer has their data in, likely would meet the deadline,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said on “Face the Nation” on CBS.
“We hope that Moderna would also be able to do it, so we could do it simultaneously. But if not, we’ll do it sequentially,” Fauci added. “So bottom line is very likely at least part of the plan will be implemented, but, ultimately, the entire plan ... It looks good.”, but “the data needed to make this decision aren’t available yet.”
A booster after full vaccination would increase immunity and help stem breakthrough and delta variant COVID-19 cases, Fauci noted.
The data “also show that when you give those boosters you reconstitute, to an even higher level than before, the protection against both infection and hospitalization,” Fauci said. “The boosters really jack up the response very, very high, and we hope that that response would be durable.”, it’s “better to wait” for the Moderna booster than get a Pfizer injection. But the U.S. plans to release data in the coming weeks on mixing vaccines, Fauci noted.
The Pfizer vaccine is the one most used in the country. More than 95 million people have received the full two-shot regimen,
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