Fauci says it is 'likely' all Americans will need a COVID-19 booster shot at some point

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The nation’s top infectious disease expert said on Thursday it is “likely” that all Americans who have received the COVID-19 vaccine will need a booster shot at some point in the future, preferably from the same manufacturer as their initial doses.

The comments from Dr. Anthony Fauci on CBS This Morning come as the Food and Drug Administration is expected to broaden its emergency use authorization for the two-dose regimens made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna to allow people with compromised immune systems to get a third shot.

“We don’t feel at this particular point, that apart from the immune compromised, we don’t feel we need to give boosters right now,” Fauci said.

He added that federal public health agencies are tracking data “on a weekly and monthly basis” among a number of different age groups “to determine if in fact the level of protection is starting to attenuate.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fauci-says-it-is-likely-all-americans-will-need-a-covid-19-booster-shot-at-some-point/ar-AANfpUy

[LisaL]

1. That some point is

now for many people already. Pfizer says 6 months after the second dose, and we have many people vaccinated more than 6 months ago. Israel is giving boosters to people over 60 who have been vaccinated more than 5 months ago.

[JoanofArgh]

3. And the UK and Germany are starting next month , I believe.

[abqtommy]

2. No big. I get an influenza vaccine every year in the fall.

[lagomorph777]

4. Of course. As long as red states are breeding variants, we have to keep up.