As recently as last week, many public health experts were fiercely opposed to the Biden administration’s campaign to roll out booster shots of the coronavirus vaccines to all American adults...
President Joe Biden receives a COVID-19 booster shot in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House grounds in Washington on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021.
The administration isn’t waiting for scientific consensus. Alarmed by the preliminary reports about omicron, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday that all American adults should receive booster shots. If delta were the only threat, boosters would still not be warranted, Gounder and other researchers said. But omicron may be a more formidable foe.
Kotton’s initial hesitation was partly rooted in a dearth of research regarding the safety of booster shots in young adults. Given certain rare heart problems in young men after receiving the second dose of an mRNA vaccine, it was not clear that the benefits outweighed the risks. Despite the WHO’s designation of omicron as a high risk, the organization has not changed its position on boosters.
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