The recommendation would apply only to people who have gotten the two-shot Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
for the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines Thursday to allow some people with compromised immune systems to get third doses. The change was specific to patients who have been unable to mount adequate immune responses against the virus, even after having been fully vaccinated.
Since then, more than 198 million people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with more than 168 million having been fully vaccinated.
Israel, which exclusively administered the Pfizer shot, has been offering coronavirus boosters to people older than 60 who were vaccinated more than five months ago to control its surge in cases from the delta variant. For months, officials had said data still indicated that people remain highly protected from COVID-19, including the delta variant, after having received the two-dose Pfizer or Moderna regimen or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. But U.S. health officials made it clear Sunday that they are preparing for the possibility that the time for boosters may come sooner than later.The White House has said that even though the U.S.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has argued against booster plans, saying poor countries have administered just 1% of available doses while 10 countries have used 75% of supplies., he advocated for a moratorium until the end of next month, allowing for the vaccination of at least 10% of the population of every country.
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