On Friday, President Biden said he and Dr. Anthony Fauci discussed the need to fire COVID-19 every five months instead of every eight as previously anticipated.
The shorter term would increase the number of vaccine doses the United States will have to set aside for booster vaccines, as poorer nations demand more donations from the United States.
“The question is should it be less than eight months? Do they have to spend only five months? It is being discussed. I spoke to Dr. Fauci this morning about this, “Biden told the Oval Office during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Biden said Friday that reinforcements for Americans “will begin here Sept. 20 pending approval from the FDA and the CDC’s committee of outside experts.”
The president did not say what Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, recommended regarding the timing of the booster shot.
Israel began giving reinforcements to the elderly last month, rejecting the World Health Organization’s request for a “moratorium on promoters” so that the Third World can get vaccines and reduce the possibility of new and more contagious ones. mutations.
Pfizer and BioNTech have applied for FDA approval for a booster vaccine for their two-dose vaccine, which is the most widely used option in the United States. According to the data, a third trait improves the body’s ability to fight the virus. The similar two-dose vaccine from Moderna was made with the same technology.
The Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine also works best with an extra shot, the company said this week.
The temporary shift in reinforcement shots threatens to undermine the White House’s messages, however, amid continued hesitation among certain demographic groups.
Jeff Zients, Biden’s COVID-19 response coordinator, said on Tuesday: “We hope the rule is simple. Get your booster shot eight months after you got your second shot. “
According to CDC data, 73.5% of American adults have received at least one vaccine against COVID-19 and 62.8% are fully vaccinated.
Vaccines drastically reduce the risk of severe symptoms, hospitalization, and death, but the high vaccination rate has not stopped the rise in cases of the Delta variant of the virus, with a daily average of more than 156,000 new cases of COVID-19 of the US last week, coinciding with the case rate in late January.
