The elderly, including nursing home residents and several health professionals, could be the first to benefit from the third dose of coronavirus vaccine in the United States.
Vaccinated Americans should soon receive a third dose.
The U.S. Health authorities announced on Wednesday that people vaccinated against Covid with Serums from Pfizer and Moderna will be able to receive a third injection eight months after the second. And this, from the end of September. "The available data clearly show that protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection begins to decline over time, after the first doses of vaccine," said senior officials, including the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Rochelle Walensky and the acting head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Janet Woodcock.
In the same statement, senior officials explain that "added to the dominance of the delta variant, we are beginning to see evidence of reduced protection against mild and moderate cases of the disease." Worse, "current protection against severe cases of the disease, hospitalizations and deaths could decrease in the coming months, especially for people at higher risk or those vaccinated during the first phase of the campaign" of initial vaccination, warn these officials, including the White House adviser on the pandemic, Anthony Fauci.
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