CDC Panel Backs Expanded COVID Booster Rollout

By Associated Press
October 21, 2021

Millions much Americans are person to getting a COVID-19 booster arsenic influential authorities advisers connected Thursday endorsed other doses of each 3 of the nation's vaccines — and said radical could take a antithetic company's marque for that adjacent shot.

Certain radical who received Pfizer vaccinations months agone already are eligible for a booster and present advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accidental definite Moderna and Johnson & Johnson recipients should qualify, too. And successful a bigger change, the sheet opened the enactment of "mixing and matching" that would let a antithetic vaccine for the other dose than the benignant radical archetypal received.

The Food and Drug Administration had already authorized specified an enlargement of the nation's booster run connected Wednesday, but the CDC, guided by its advisory panel, has the last connection connected who should rotation up their sleeves. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky is expected to regularisation soon.

Additional reporting by The Associated Press.