While news media are reporting that health officials are suggesting fully vaccinated people get COVID-19 vaccine booster shots at eight months, U.S. President Joe Biden said he is considering moving the timeline up to five months.
During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Biden said he’d spoken with Dr. Anthony Fauci about giving the boosters three months sooner than federal health officials had announced.
But is that about to happen? Fauci quickly responded on a Sunday TV news show that administering booster shots eight months after the second injection is still the goal. However, Fauci also left the door open to moving up the timeline. “That’s the plan that we have, but we are open to data as they come in,” Fauci told “Meet the Press.”
He also said he’d always thought booster shots would be needed, including a second one for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. “If we had the grace to be able to do this in a very slow, measured manner, the Phase 2 study would have given various intervals of dosing,” Fauci said. “It is entirely conceivable that when all is said and done the standard regime will be a three-dose shot for the mRNA and a two-dose shot for J&J.”
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Publish Date: 2021-08-30 16:21:38