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U.S. could announce COVID-19 vaccine booster plan in early September

By Brian Buntz | August 6, 2021

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine vial

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. [Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons]

In response to the largest coronavirus spike in infections in months, the FDA is prepping a plan for COVID-19 vaccine boosters.

The plan will likely follow other guidelines by prioritizing boosters for immunocompromised and elderly individuals, according to a report from WSJ.

The U.K., Germany and Israel have recommended providing boosters to high-risk populations.

The growing support of COVID-19 boosters in several countries comes as the WHO has called to suspend the use of boosters until late September to make more vaccine doses available to the developing world.

The White House has disputed the WHO recommendation as a false dichotomy, explaining the U.S. could continue donating more COVID-19 vaccines doses while providing booster doses to vulnerable populations, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki. While the U.S. doesn’t yet have an official booster plan, officials have stated that the country would have sufficient doses should they be required.

To date, healthcare workers have administered more than 193 million COVID-19 doses — enough to cover 58.2% of the population, according to the CDC.

Executives at Pfizer and Moderna have predicted that COVID-19 boosters will be an effective tool to continue beating back the novel coronavirus.

Pfizer and Moderna plan to ask the FDA to extend their emergency use authorization for their respective COVID-19 vaccines to support the use of boosters.

Both companies are also developing boosters based on circulating variants.

About The Author

Brian Buntz

The pharma and biotech editor of WTWH Media, Brian is a veteran journalist with more than 15 years of experience covering an array of life science topics, including clinical trials, drug discovery and development and medical devices. Before coming to WTWH, he served as content director focused on connected devices at Informa. In addition, Brian covered the medical device sector for 10 years at UBM. At Qmed, he overhauled the brand’s news coverage and helped to grow the site’s traffic volume dramatically. He had previously held managing editor roles on two of the company’s medical device technology publications. Connect with him on LinkedIn or email at bbuntz@wtwhmedia.com.

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