An advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted on Friday to recommend Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s COVID-19 booster shots to all
Friday’s unanimous vote by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices strips away the complicated and confusing criteria that had surrounded boosters, with eligibility limited to certain groups and, initially, certain vaccines.
Dr. Nirav Shah, president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, underscored the confusion seen by state health officials.Committee member Dr. Oliver Brooks, the chief medical officer at Watts HealthCare Corporation in Los Angeles, echoed the need to simplify the eligibility.In a presentation to the committee, Oliver said that the CDC had concluded that Pfizer’s booster was safe and effective.
The advisory committee’s recommendations make all adults eligible for a booster shot six months after vaccination with a two-dose mRNA vaccine or two months after vaccination with the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine., the recommendation means that a person can receive any of the three boosters, as long as enough time has passed since their initial vaccination.
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