BREAKING: CDC recommends Pfizer-BioNTech boosters for people 65 years old and older, as well as those at high risk of severe COVID-19.
Finden Sie mit diesem Budgetplaner den tatsächlichen Preis Ihrer Traumküche. Finden Sie Ihre Traumküche.People 65 and older along with others at high-risk will soon be allowed to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot.
This recommendation roughly follows -- but is slightly more specific -- than authorization Wednesday night from the Food and Drug Administration, greenlighting the third shot for anyone 65 or older, as well as for people as young as 18, if they have a medical condition that puts them at risk of severe COVID-19 or if they work a frontline job that makes it more likely that they would get infected.
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