“I would not recommend anything to others that I wouldn’t recommend for my own family,” wrote CDC director Mandy Cohen in an op-ed on Wednesday. “My...
The hope is that an extra shot will shore up protection for kids ages 5 to 11 as infections once again are on the rise. Read...
Disagreements: Booster shots have been controversial. A group of top scientists, including experts at the FDA and WHO, published a review in The Lancet on Monday...
Some health experts worry COVID boosters for the fully vaccinated could birth new coronavirus variants, and that the priority should be immunizing the hundreds of millions...
More than 1 million Americans who got the Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines have already gotten booster shots despite a lack of government authorization. Read More
The WHO’s latest intervention comes as a number of countries have started rolling out booster shots or are considering doing so. Israel began administering third shots...
About half a dozen other countries are considering the idea. If those countries also begin offering booster shots, “this will require an additional 800 million doses...