The FDA authorizes booster shots of Pfizer and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines for all adults

The FDA authorized Moderna and Pfizer boosters for all adults. If the CDC agrees, it would open up eligibility to tens of millions more fully vaccinated Americans as soon as this weekend.

US FDA has authorized coronavirus boosters for all adults. The news comes after several states had recently started allowing all adults to receive the booster shot, despite more narrow federal guidelines in place.

The CDC’s outside experts are scheduled to meet Friday afternoon to give advice on how the boosters should be used. After getting the recommendations, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is expected to sign off on broader use of boosters, also on Friday.

What people are saying?

Anirudh Chatterjee The latest FDA authorization comes nearly two months after the agency first gave the green light to booster shots for Americans 65 and older and for others considered at high risk for Covid -19.

RobertoMG How many more doses are missing of these experimental vaccines? Governments oblige the vaccine, but just as laboratories do not take responsibility.