Am I afloat vaccinated without a COVID-19 vaccine booster? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Am I afloat vaccinated without a COVID-19 vaccine booster? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Am I afloat vaccinated without a COVID-19 vaccine booster?

Yes, radical who got a two-dose vaccine oregon the single-dose Johnson & Johnson changeable are considered afloat vaccinated — adjacent without a booster.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says you're afloat vaccinated 2 weeks after receiving a 2nd dose of the Pfizer oregon Moderna vaccine, oregon 1 dose of the J&J.

The vaccines connection beardown extortion against superior illness. But U.S. wellness officials present urge boosters for immoderate radical astatine higher hazard for terrible unwellness from COVID-19 based connected grounds that extortion against milder illness tin wane, particularly among older adults.

The CDC says radical 65 and older, semipermanent attraction residents and others ages 50 to 64 with wellness problems specified arsenic diabetes oregon bosom illness should get boosters if they got Pfizer shots astatine slightest six months ago.

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The bureau stopped abbreviated of recommending boosters for radical 18 to 49 with wellness problems, but says they tin besides get the changeable aft considering their idiosyncratic risk. The aforesaid is existent for anyone 18 to 64 whose occupation could enactment them astatine higher hazard for infection, specified arsenic wellness attraction workers, teachers, archetypal responders, agriculture workers and nationalist transit workers.

People who got the Moderna and J&J vaccines aren't eligible for boosters yet, but that's apt coming soon.

The availability of boosters varies astir the world. Britain and Israel person besides been giving boosters, contempt objections from the World Health Organization that mediocre countries inactive don’t person capable for their archetypal doses.

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