Nurse Elizabeth Johnson administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Melissa Mendez in Reading, Pennsylvania. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle/Getty Images
A San Francisco hospital is letting people who got Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine get a dose of Pfizer’s or Moderna’s.
J&J’s shot may be the least effective against the Delta variant.
But US regulators haven’t recommended extra shots or boosters for any Americans yet.
It’s not a booster shot, the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital says – it’s a “supplemental dose.” Starting later this week, the hospital will allow people who received Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine to get a second shot of either Pfizer or Moderna.
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In another dispiriting setback for the nation’s efforts to stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots.
Health officials on Friday released details of that research, which was key in this week’s decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend that vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the delta variant is fueling infection surges. The authors said the findings suggest that the CDC’s mask guidance should be expanded to include the entire country, even outside of hot spots.