Tag: booster dose

New Mexico Governor Says Fully Vaccinated Means Three Doses

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham went beyond endorsing a COVID-19 vaccine booster for all adults, saying she believes being fully vaccinated now means a person should have three shots. At a a virtual pandemic briefing, she said the definition of “fully vaccinated” changing to three shots would reflect concerns that COVID-19 vaccines start losing…


New Mexico Governor Says Fully Vaccinated Means 3 Doses

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham went beyond endorsing a COVID-19 vaccine booster for all adults, saying she believes being fully vaccinated now means a person should have three shots. At a a virtual pandemic briefing, she said the definition of “fully vaccinated” changing to three shots would reflect concerns that COVID-19 vaccines start losing…


Leaders of More States Move To Endorse COVID-19 Booster Shots for All Adults

Leaders of more states have moved to endorse COVID-19 booster shots for all adults, bringing the total to seven states nationwide, including Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and West Virginia. It comes after Pfizer last week formally asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow all American adults to…


Pfizer’s COVID-19 Booster Dose Effective in Preventing Severe Disease: Israeli Study

A booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine five months after a second shot reduces an individual’s risk of hospitalization by 93 percent, according to an Israeli study published on Thursday. The study, published in The Lancet medical journal (pdf), was conducted by Israel’s largest HMO Clalit Health Services, with funding from Harvard Medical School. Researchers…


Australia to Roll out Population-Wide Booster Shots Program

The Australian government is planning to launch a population-wide COVID-19 vaccination booster program by 2022, pending approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the country’s medicine and therapeutics regulator. The news of the plan comes as Australia reached the 70 percent vaccination milestone on Wednesday, which will move the nation closer to “phase B” of…


FDA Authorizes COVID-19 Boosters of Pfizer for Seniors and Those at High Risk

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized for emergency use a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for those aged 65 and older, as well as those aged 18–64 who are at high risk of severe COVID-19. The third dose of the mRNA-based shot is authorized to be administered at least six months after the…


UK to Offer COVID-19 Booster Shots to Over 50s

Those in England who are over 50 years old will be offered a third dose of a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Monday. It’s part of the government’s autumn and winter plan (pdf) to manage the CCP virus pandemic and other seasonal illnesses such as influenza. Announcing the plan to…


J&J Says COVID-19 Booster Dose Increases Antibody Levels ‘Nine-Fold’

Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 booster shots are able to generate high levels of antibodies and increase people’s immunity against the CCP virus, the company reported on Wednesday. The drugmaker’s latest findings are based on two Phase 2 studies conducted on people previously inoculated with its single-shot vaccine. Participants in the studies got a booster dose six…