Fauci opens door to booster dose for vulnerable Americans, ‘might likely happen’

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top disease expert, said in an interview Sunday that Americans with some underlying conditions may be required to take a booster dose of coronavirus due to the emergence of dangerous variants.

“Those who are patients with organ transplants, cancer chemotherapy, and autoimmune diseases that are subject to immunosuppressive regimes, these are the kind of individuals who if there was a third supporter, which would probably happen, would be among the vulnerable,” he said. CNN on Sunday.

Fauci faced some renewed criticism after putting forward the idea that new mask mandates are something under “active study”.

There has been a new look recently at booster injections as the coronavirus continues to spread and hope for a rapid global recovery and disease eradication fades.

Dr. Ugur Sahin, president of BioNTech, which teamed up with Pfizer to create a vaccine, raised some concerns that immunity could start to wear off after about seven months. The Wall Street Journal reported that he made the comment after an Israeli study showed that those who were fully vaccinated in January were up to three times more likely to contract the virus than those who were vaccinated in May.

He said that despite the decrease in antibodies, most people will continue to be protected against serious illness and may not have to take a third dose.

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Nationally, 56.4% of all Americans, including children, have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And White House officials said, Thursday, that vaccinations began to increase in some states where infection rates are declining and cases of Covid-19 virus infection are increasing, including Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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