Headline Roundup • August 17th, 2021
Biden Administration Expected To Recommend COVID-19 Booster Shots at 8 Months
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The Biden administration is expected to recommend COVID-19 booster shots after eight months for most Americans. The recommendation could come as early as this week, and the boosters could be administered sometime in September, pending FDA approval.
Federal heath officials have been considering this recommendation after reportedly looking at preliminary studies from other countries that suggest the vaccine's protection against serious illness drops off after eight months. The World Health Organization and other global health authorities have on more-vaccinated and wealthier countries to hold off on booster shots until third-world countries have received the first dose of the vaccine; the U.S. has shared more than 100 million vaccine doses.
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NPR (Online News)
Fully vaccinated Americans could be rolling up their sleeves for another dose of the coronavirus vaccine as soon as next month.
The Biden administration is close to advising fully vaccinated Americans get COVID-19 booster shots eight months after their last vaccine. A source familiar with the discussions among administration health experts said this recommendation could come as soon as this week.
The plan was first reported by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The boosters would be intended to protect against the highly contagious delta variant, which has caused caseloads in...
Washington Post
The Biden administration is planning to announce that most Americans who have received the coronavirus vaccine will need booster shots to combat waning immunity and the highly transmissible delta variant that is sparking a surge in covid-19 cases, according to four people familiar with the decision.
The administration’s health and science experts are coalescing around the view that people will need the boosters eight months after being fully vaccinated, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a decision not yet public. The move is likely to...
Washington Times
The Biden administration this week is coalescing around a plan to administer booster shots to people who completed their COVID-19 vaccinations eight months ago.
The U.S. would start rolling out third shots of vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna in September as it tries to fend off the fast-moving delta variant of the coronavirus, according to the plan first reported by The New York Times.
The Food and Drug Administration would need to approve the third shot before the rollout. Recipients of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine will likely need...
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