Q&A: Am I going to need a booster shot for COVID-19?
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So you’ve got your COVID shots, but with the delta variant surging across the country you are now understandably concerned about whether that is enough. Will you need a booster shot?
Health and infectious-disease experts are still dissecting that topic. Last week, members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which helps shape federal COVID-19 vaccination policy, were presented with evidence that a third dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine could help immunocompromised people.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, said over the weekend that the committee’s ongoing study of the issue “might push us in that direction.” But as of right now, that’s not an official recommendation.
More people in Massachusetts appear to be taking advantage of the state’s increased focus on walk-in vaccination clinics.On May 10, all seven of the state’s mass COVID-19 vaccination sites started offering walk-in service. Gov. Charlie Baker also began shifting more vaccine doses to smaller settings such as regional collaboratives, pharmacies and doctors’ offices.Union Pharmacy in Newton has about 60 people per day walking in either to receive a COVID-19 vaccine or to make a vaccination appointment.“I tried to schedule my initial one sort of using (online) scheduling, and my first vaccine would have been today. And here I am using walk-in and I got my second one already,” said Mike Silvestri, who got both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at Union Pharmacy along with his wife, Liza.“We’re excited to be able to be freer,” Liza Silvestri said. Anthony Petrillo, a pharmacy intern at Union, says Baker’s decision to drop all of the state’s COVID-19 restrictions on May
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Some Americans still have concerns about how quickly the research and development of the COVID-19 vaccines were ramped up. And reports of serious side effects like those linked to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine have only added fuel to the fire.
A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, shows that some of the immediate vaccine reactions that have occurred are due to anxiety and not the vaccine itself.
Over just a period of three days between April 7 and April 9, vaccine clinics in California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa and North Carolina began reporting a series of immediate reactions to a COVID-19 vaccine.
Demand for COVID-19 vaccines is starting to dip as Mass. steps up efforts to reach the wary
âYouâve gotten the easy people,â said one official. Now comes the hard part.
By Robert Weisman Globe Staff,Updated May 1, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Erick Escobar opened the door of a home as Ana Martinez and her daughter Daya Martinez waited in East Boston. A team from ASG are going go door to door to help inform people in East Boston about COVID-19 vaccines.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
After months of Massachusetts residents enthusiastically rushing to get their COVID-19 shots, a stark reality is taking hold in the stateâs vaccine program: Most of the people who were eager to roll up their sleeves have already done so.