Hi, I'm Erica Pandy. Welcome to Axios Recap, where we dig into one big story. It's Monday,

October 25th, and we're focused on COVID vaccines. There's been a lot of big news on COVID boosters recently. The CDC endorsed a recommendation

for Moderna and Johnson & Johnson booster vaccines, opening up millions of Americans to get their

booster shots. And the CDC also recommended the mixing and matching of COVID vaccines,

letting people choose whatever boosters they want, no matter which kind of

vaccine they originally got. But in much of the world, people are still trying to get their

first round of shots. And while experts are predicting this winter won't see the same surge of

COVID cases as last year, thanks to vaccination rates, there's still a lot of unknowns. Could we be

one step closer to a post-pandemic world?

In a moment, Axios reporter Tina Reid with the latest on how vaccines are changing the trajectory

of the pandemic.

And we're joined now by Axios' healthcare editor, Tina Reid.

She's here with a COVID update.

Hey, Tina.

Hello.

So Tina, back when I was getting vaccinated,

the CDC recommended I get whatever vaccine I can first get my hands on. So I went with the Johnson

and Johnson. And since then, there have been some pretty mixed reports about its efficacy,

but then the FDA authorized mixing and matching of vaccines for boosters. So what should I do? So that's one of the big

questions a lot of people have, in particular a lot of the people who got Johnson and Johnson vaccines.

What we've heard from the FDA advisors this week was a strong feeling that the Johnson and Johnson

vaccine probably should have been a two-dose series to

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