It's Monday, September 20th. I'm Gideon Ressink.

And I'm Josie Duffy-Race, and this is What A Day.

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On Today's show, Reikers Island faces even more calls for reform,

plus Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene takes aim at socialism by blowing up a Prius.

But first, late last week, an FDA panel made its much-anticipated decision on booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the US.

So this FDA panel of outside advisors has just voted down recommending a booster shot from Pfizer's vaccine for people 16 and older.

So that's CNBC reporting the news as it happened. But Gideon, can you tell us a little bit more about why?

Okay, so let's just remember that we were talking about this on the Friday episode.

As a refresher, we said that one of the central tensions going into this meeting and this vote that was pretty well publicized

was around whether experts had all the information that they needed to justify backing boosters.

So initially, this expert panel considered boosters for the general population and they ended up voting 16 to 2 against that wide of an application.

So nearly unanimous in saying it's not super necessary for everybody.

And my view, this is all taking place right before the Biden administration had planned on beginning to make these available to that general population as soon as 2 day.

So the panel took that off the table. The broader approval was gone. Then they took a break, came back and sort of reformulated what they would be asking for in the following vote.

At that point, there was unanimous approval of a booster shot for people 65 and older and anyone at risk of severe illness.

Then later on in the day, this was a very long meeting. There was also a poll among the committee members about making the Pfizer booster available for people like healthcare workers, emergency responders, teachers, etc.

People who might not be in those other brackets that we talked about, but might be exposed quite a bit.

Then there was unanimous support for that as well. And for all these people that we mentioned, the recommendation is to administer this booster at least six months after the second dose.

So you mentioned that the White House wanted boosters for everyone by today. So what was the administration's reaction to this?

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