November 18, 2021 - Page 2

Placards display signage for Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations at a mobile COVID-19 vaccination center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, Aug. 18, 2021. The United States will begin administrating COVID-19 booster shots next month as new data shows that vaccine protection wanes over time, top U.S. health officials announced Wednesday. According to the CDC, 72.2 percent of American adults have received one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, with 61.8 percent being fully vaccinated. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty Images)

FDA Nears Decision on Pfizer COVID-19 Booster for All Adults

By Jacqueline Howard, Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, Key decisions on whether all adults will be eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine booster could come soon. The US Food and Drug Administration is currently considering Pfizer and BioNTech’s request to amend the emergency use authorization for their Covid-19 vaccine so that all adults would be eligible

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