Walmart, Walgreens, CVS offering more COVID-19 booster options

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FILE - In this Tuesday, July 27, 2021 record photo, a aesculapian idiosyncratic prepares a changeable of the Moderna vaccine during a vaccination run astatine Saint Damien Hospital successful Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The White House says the U.S. has donated its 200 millionth COVID-19 changeable to assistance vaccinate the remainder of the world. The Biden medication is aiming to pb a planetary vaccination run adjacent arsenic it rolls retired boosters for home use. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn, file)

Posted at 7:27 PM, Oct 22, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-22 20:29:04-04

Walmart, Walgreens and CVS announced they are present offering the Moderna COVID-19 booster shots.

The Johnson & Johnson booster changeable is besides disposable astatine Walmart and Walgreens.

All 3 retailers are inactive providing boosters of the Pfizer vaccine.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) authorized boosters from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson connected Thursday. It had antecedently authorized the Pfizer booster shot.

The CDC besides authorized premix and matching of booster vaccines.

Those eligible to person the Moderna oregon Pfizer boosters see individuals 65 years oregon older, adults astatine hazard of terrible illness oregon those who enactment successful high-risk settings.

People tin get the Johnson & Johnson booster if they are 18 oregon older and received their archetypal changeable astatine slightest 2 months earlier.