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Don’t Call It A Booster: Immunocompromised May Be First To Get Extra COVID Shot In US

 
• By Sarah Karlin-Smith

Reports indicate a 13 August CDC advisory committee meeting may be used to address an amended FDA emergency use authorization to allow immunosuppressed Americans to get additional COVID-19 vaccine doses. Such a move would not run afoul of the World Health Organization’s plea for a moratorium on boosters in the general population until much of the world initially can be vaccinated. 

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The US FDA is inching closer to making determinations on the need for COVID-19 booster shots. • Source: Alamy

The US Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are likely to soon permit the administration of an additional COVID-19 vaccine dose to immunocompromised individuals, according to recent reports, but for a variety of reasons they may steer clear of referring to the additional shots as a booster.

US media reports on 6 August indicated that the FDA could authorize the extra shots within days or weeks and that a 13 August CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices...

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