CDC panel endorses J&J, Moderna boosters

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Posted at 4:41 PM, Oct 21, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-21 17:44:38-04

A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) vaccine advisory sheet voted to urge COVID-19 booster shots from Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.

The committee echoed the FDA's authorization for Moderna boosters.

Those eligible to person a booster see anyone 65 and older, adults astatine hazard of terrible COVID-19 and those who unrecorded oregon enactment successful an country that puts them astatine higher hazard of contracting the virus.

The sheet recommends Johnson & Johnson recipients, 18 years and older, tin person their booster astatine slightest 2 months aft their archetypal shot.

The sheet besides gave the OK to premix and lucifer booster shots.

The proposal volition spell to CDC Director Dr. Michelle Walensky for last approval.

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