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Millions of Americans are now eligible to receive a third booster dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Rochelle Walensky endorsed the shot for seniors, high-risk workers and clinically vulnerable Friday, overruling a narrower recommendation from the agency’s advisers Thursday and paving the way for the U.S. booster drive to begin....
The panel voted against recommending the third shot to healthy people under 65, including those in high-risk professions like healthcare workers and teachers. this—an unusual, though not unprecedented, move—and also recommended the shot be offered to adults in high-risk jobs. Younger adults with underlying medical conditions or in an at-risk institutional setting such as prison may also get the shot.
Walensky’s recommendations bring the CDC’s guidance in line with that from the Food and Drug Administration, which Pfizer’s vaccine to be given in a third booster dose to seniors, high-risk workers and those at risk of severe illness.“As CDC Director, it is my job to recognize where our actions can have the greatest impact,” Walensky said in a statement late Thursday, according to the Associated Press. “In a pandemic, even with uncertainty, we must take actions that we anticipate will do the greatest good.”The FDA is reviewing Moderna’s application for an approval of a booster dose.
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