“My guess is sometime by September or October we will be giving booster shots to older individuals and certainly immunocompromised,” ScottGottliebMD says.
"Quite frankly, it's unfortunate because I do believe at least for older individuals and people who were vaccinated back in December, January should be contemplating this more actively," he said, adding those people seem to be more susceptible to the virus right now. "[This is] certainly concerning because eventually those infections are going to break through and develop into more severe disease.
"For people who think that this is a zero-sum game and giving boosters to Americans is going to take vaccines away from other countries, those vaccines have already been purchased. A lot of them have been stockpiled," Gottlieb said. "They exist and they're not going to be used unless they're used by the U.S. government. The U.S. government's going to maintain a stockpile of Covid vaccine as a national security matter.
Questions about the necessity of booster shots have been circulating ahead of schools reopening in the fall and the spread of newTwo of the three Covid vaccines currently being given in the U.S., two-shot regimens from Pfizer and
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