States and major pharmacy chains have already begun rolling out the boosters
A person walks by a vaccine sign in Manhattan’s Union Square. Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images This week, federal agencies signed off on making booster shots available to tens of millions of Americans who have received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine, including anyone who is 65 and older.
Where will booster shots be administered? Booster shots are expected to be available at the same places COVID vaccines are now being administered: retail pharmacies , doctor’s offices, and small vaccine clinics. Are booster shots safe? So far, side effects from an additional COVID-19 vaccine dose were similar to the primary vaccination series. A survey from Israel — the first country to officially offer a third dose — found that 88 percent of Pfizer vaccine recipients said that they felt “similar or better” in the days after their third dose than they did after the second jab. The most common side effect, like with the first two-dose regimen, was soreness at the injection site.
Why did the CDC disagree with its own advisory panel on booster shots for people in high-risk occupations? The CDC endorsed booster shots for Pfizer vaccine recipients aged 18 to 64 whose jobs place them at higher risk of exposure to the coronavirus, despite the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ruling against that.
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