Health & Fitness
Biden Is Expected To Recommend Getting A Booster Vaccine
The Biden administration is expected to recommend that vaccinated Americans receive a booster vaccine 8 months after their initial vaccine.
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — The Biden Administration will likely recommend that many Americans get a coronavirus booster shot, according to the New York Times. The announcement is expected to come this week.
The booster vaccine will provide additional protection against the Delta variant. Health officials will likely recommend that people get the booster shot eight months after they received their second shot. For some people, that would be as early as September.
Right now this recommendation would apply to anyone who received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines. Officials won't know if people who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will need a booster until the results of the company's two-dose clinical trial are released later this month.
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Booster shots are likely to be made available to people in the same order that the original vaccines were rolled out. The initial recipients would be residents of nursing homes, health care workers, and emergency workers.
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