Headline Roundup • November 19th, 2021
CDC Recommends Booster Shots for All Adults
Coronavirus,Coronavirus Vaccine,Booster Shots,CDC,FDA,Rochelle Walensky,Public Health,Science,Pfizer,Moderna
Summary from the AllSides News Team
A CDC advisory panel voted unanimously on Friday to recommend making all adults eligible for booster shots of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine six months after their second dose. The panel also voted unanimously to strongly recommend that people over 50 should get a booster shot. In their deliberations, some panel members pointed to confusion over the current rules about who should get a booster shot. Additionally, the FDA authorized Pfizer and Moderna booster shots for all adults on Friday. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on the new guidelines Friday evening.
Coverage was mostly balanced and widespread across the spectrum on Friday, but it was often upstaged on homepages by the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and the House passage of Democrats’ Build Back Better legislation. Update 11/19/2021 6:38pm EST: Added the CDC's formal approval of booster shots for all adults.
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Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed a coronavirus booster-shot-for-all policy Friday, voting to allow all adults to get an extra shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines. In a separate last-minute vote, they also recommended the shots for all people 50 or over.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is expected to sign off on the unanimous recommendations later Friday, making broad booster eligibility official U.S. policy a week before Thanksgiving, the unofficial start of holiday season and as infections tick up in large swaths of the country. Fearful of winter...
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel on Friday unanimously approved recommending booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for all adults.
The CDC panel said anyone 18 or above can get a third shot, while recommending that Americans over the age of 50 should get one. A final decision by the agency is expected later Friday.
Earlier in the day, the Food and Drug Administration approved requests by Moderna and Pfizer to get booster shots into the arms of all adults nationwide.
The vaccine manufacturers announced the approvals on...
A key outside advisory group to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has endorsed the use of COVID-19 booster shots for all adults, a one-size-fits-all approach designed to simplify eligibility.
If CDC Director Rochelle Walensky signs off on the broader use, as expected, the extra shots will be available immediately to all adults, as long as they are six months past the final dose of a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or two months after a Johnson & Johnson dose.
The recommendation from the panel comes just hours after the Food...
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