Some doses could be available as soon as Friday, with a wider rollout planned for next week.
Adults 18 years or older can get the Moderna booster, while the Pfizer-BioNTech version has been authorized for people 12 and up. In both cases, a person is only eligible for a booster if it has been at least two months since their last COVID vaccine.
"What we've seen is that almost everybody who is eligible for a boost is far more beyond two months from their last shot," she says."Certainly we wouldn't want somebody to get a boost too soon, and we wouldn't want you to get a boost before two months. But I would say if you're three, four, five months after your last shot, now is the time to go ahead and get it.", a controversial strategy aimed at saving time .
That data includes the 600 million doses of the original vaccine that have been administered across the country with what Walensky calls"an extraordinary safety record." Officials also saw similar safety results for an earlier version of this bivalent vaccine that was tested in some 1,400 people.
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