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Pfizer CEO: Trial Shows Booster Restores Full Protection

The Hill reports: Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Thursday that a booster shot of their coronavirus vaccine restores full protection against COVID-19. The companies said that a late-stage clinical trial found that the booster was 95.6 percent effective against symptomatic COVID-19. The efficacy results are the first from any randomized, controlled trial of a COVID-19 booster, they said. “These results …

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FDA Approves Moderna And J&J Vaccine Boosters

CNBC reports: The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday night authorized booster shots of both Johnson & Johnson and Moderna’s Covid vaccines, another critical step in distributing extra doses to tens of millions of people. At the same time, U.S. regulators also authorized “mixing and matching” vaccines, allowing Americans to get a booster shot that’s a different vaccine from the one …

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FDA Set To Approve Moderna And J&J Booster Shots

The New York Times reports: The federal government is expected to take a significant step this week toward offering booster doses to a much wider range of Americans as advisers to the Food and Drug Administration meet on Thursday and Friday to discuss recipients of the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna coronavirus vaccines. On Thursday, the F.D.A.’s advisory panel of …

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J&J To Seek FDA Authorization For Booster Shot

The New York Times reports: Johnson & Johnson is planning to ask U.S. federal regulators early this week to authorize a booster shot of its coronavirus vaccine, according to officials familiar with the company’s plans. The firm is the last of the three federally authorized vaccine providers to call for extra injections, amid mounting evidence that at least older adults …

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CDC: No Unusual Side Effects From Vaccine Boosters

Bloomberg News reports: People who got Covid-19 vaccine boosters after the shots were cleared for people with weakened immune systems had mostly mild to moderate reactions, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some 22,191 booster recipients registered with a federal monitoring system starting Aug. 12, when the doses were first authorized on an emergency basis by …

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McConnell “Glad To Share” That He Just Got Booster

The Insider reports: “I’m glad to share that a few minutes ago I received a booster vaccination for COVID-19,” McConnell said as he began his speech. “All throughout the pandemic, I’ve followed the best advice from experts, and especially from my own healthcare providers.” “It was an easy decision to receive a booster,” he continued. “I’m a survivor of childhood …

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LIVE VIDEO: Biden Receives His Vaccine Booster Shot

CNN reports: President Joe Biden is set to get his Covid-19 booster shot on Monday afternoon, according to the White House. Biden will receive his third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at 1 p.m. ET at the White House during an on-camera event. He’s also scheduled to make remarks ahead of receiving his booster shot. A head of his …

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State Officials Begin Roll Out Of Booster Campaigns

The New York Times reports: State health officials rushed on Friday to roll out campaigns to provide coronavirus booster shots for millions of vulnerable people who got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and to help a confused public understand who qualifies for the extra shots. Among their challenges: making sure that recipients of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines know that …

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CDC Backs FDA On Boosters For Those Over 65, At Risk

CNN reports: Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed giving booster doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to people 65 and older long-term care facility residents, and certain people with underlying conditions. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously on the question: “A single Pfizer/BioNtech covid 19 vaccine booster is recommended for persons aged …

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Study: J&J Booster Produces Strong Immune Response

The Associated Press reports: Johnson & Johnson released data showing that a booster dose to its one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a strong immune response months after people receive a first dose. J&J said in statement Tuesday that it ran two early studies in people previously given its vaccine and found that a second dose produced an increased antibody response in …

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FDA Advisory Panel Votes Against Boosters For All

The Washington Post reports: In an all-day FDA advisory meeting, experts resoundingly voted down Pfizer’s application for boosters for everyone 16 and older and is now debating whether to authorize an additional dose for older adults. The panelists may choose to green-light boosters for adults in older age brackets and with serious medical conditions that heighten their vulnerability to severe …

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De Blasio Readies 1900 Vax Sites For Booster Rollout

The New York Daily News reports: Federal regulators haven’t authorized booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine yet — but Mayor de Blasio is already laying the groundwork for administering them. “We need to be ready to move immediately,” he said at his daily morning briefing. “We are ready.” De Blasio’s plan taps all 1,900 vaccination sites in the five boroughs …

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FDA Neutral On Whether Boosters Necessary For All

The Washington Post reports: A highly-anticipated Food and Drug Administration review of evidence on whether a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine is widely necessary struck a noncommittal tone Wednesday, setting the stage for a potentially fractious debate among expert advisers to the agency this week. Pfizer and government officials have relied heavily on data from Israel in making …

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Britain To Offer Vaccine Boosters To Those Over 50

Reuters reports: Britain will begin a COVID-19 vaccine booster program for older and more vulnerable people soon as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government relies on vaccines rather than further lockdowns to navigate a “bumpy” winter. He also outlined a “Plan B,” involving mandatory vaccine certificates in some settings, mandatory mask wearing, and asking people to work from home, which was …

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WHO Calls For Halt To Boosters Through End Of 2021

The Associated Press reports: The head of the World Health Organization is calling on rich countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines to refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year, expanding a call that has largely fallen on deaf ears. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said Wednesday he was “appalled” at comments by a leading …

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Trump Unlikely To Get Vax Booster: “It’s Not For Me”

The Wall Street Journal reports: Former President Donald Trump, who received a Covid-19 vaccination before leaving the White House this year, said he is unlikely to receive the booster shot that U.S. health regulators are expected to approve in the coming months. “I feel like I’m in good shape from that standpoint—I probably won’t,” Mr. Trump said in an interview …

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POLL: 76% Of Vaccinated Want The Booster Shot

Reuters reports: As the United States gears up for a COVID-19 vaccine booster campaign, most vaccinated Americans want the additional dose, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found, largely driven by concern over the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus. The national survey, conducted Aug. 27-30, found that among those adults who received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, …

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Fauci: Timeline For COVID Vaccine Booster Is “Flexible”

The Hill reports: President Biden’s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said on Sunday the timeline of administering COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for fully-vaccinated Americans is “flexible” around the 8-month mark first suggested by U.S. officials. “We’re still planning on eight months. That was the calculation we made. This rollout will start on the week of September the 20th. But as …

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STUDY: J&J Booster Produces 9X Antibody Response

Via press release from Johnson & Johnson: In anticipation of the potential need for boosters, the Company conducted two Phase 1/2a studies in individuals previously vaccinated with its single-shot vaccine. New interim data from these studies demonstrate that a booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine generated a rapid and robust increase in spike-binding antibodies, nine-fold higher than …

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STUDY: Pfizer Booster Shot Strongly Protects Seniors

The Washington Post reports: Fresh data out of Israel is providing encouraging news about the effectiveness of coronavirus boosters in seniors. A study by the Israeli Health Ministry found that a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine provided four times as much protection against infection as two doses in people 60 and older. The level of protection was five to …

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