By vgreene, 20 August, 2021 Individuals vaccinated earliest in the initial rollout incl many health care providers nursing home long term care facility residents and other seniors will likely be eligible for a booster at that time pending FDA CDC review approval1
By vgreene, 20 August, 2021 To be optimally protected the CDC says that a person needs to get a booster shot when and if eligible
By vgreene, 20 August, 2021 The plan to offer boosters to all Americans is subject to FDA s independent evaluation determination of the safety effectiveness of a third dose of the mRNA vaccines as well as CDC s Committee on Immunization Practices ACIP issuing booster dose recommenda
By vgreene, 20 August, 2021 Individuals vaccinated earliest in the initial rollout incl many health care providers nursing home long term care facility residents and other seniors will likely be eligible for a booster first1
By vgreene, 20 August, 2021 Although we ve limited pt outcome data on the J J vaccine we re also not hearing about large numbers of breakthrough cases in the U S w individuals vaccinated w that vaccine2
By vgreene, 20 August, 2021 They offer less protection but still a reasonable amount of protection from actual infection w the highly transmissible Delta variant2
By vgreene, 20 August, 2021 The vaccines both the mRNA PfizerBioNTech and Moderna and the adenovirus vector J J vaccines offer good protection against severe disease and death from the Delta variant assuming individuals are fully vaccinated2
By vgreene, 20 August, 2021 Although booster shots are currently recommended only for immunocompromised individuals on 8 18 21 public health and medical experts from the Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to begin offering booster doses of the mRNA COVID 19 vacc
