Plans by the Biden administration to start offering a third round of booster shots for those who took one of the two-shot Covid-vaccines are being cast into further doubt by a growing list of scientists to doubt the efficacy of such a move in light of evidence that a third booster shot might put people more at risk than less.
From www.marketwatch.com
2021-09-17 10:36:00
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The U.S. is days away from President Joe Biden’s target date to begin rolling out COVID-19 booster shots to Americans even though experts still say there isn’t a scientific case for boosting the entire eligible population.
The Biden administration announced last month that adults vaccinated with the shots developed by BioNTech SE
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will qualify for a third dose starting Sept. 20 as long as it’s been eight months since they received their first round of shots and U.S. regulators give the ‘OK.’
But the plan has been criticized by medical experts, who say there isn’t enough clinical data demonstrating all Americans vaccinated with the mRNA shots need a booster because they now face a higher risk of severe disease if they do get sick.
