FDA expected to authorize Covid-19 vaccine booster shots for immunocompromised people within the next 48 hours
Within the next 48 hours, the US Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize a Coronavirus booster shot for people who are immunocompromised.
According to CNN, a source with the FDA said they are closely watching studies in which a third dose is given to immunocompromised people. This booster shot would be a third dose added to the two-shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
All three vaccines currently in use have been approved for emergency use, but the FDA has to authorize using them in a new way outside the existing approval. About 9 million Americans are immunocompromised, according to an estimate by the CDC.
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