Live Covid Live Updates: Biden Administration Moves on Multiple Fronts Against the Virus The administration strongly recommended booster shots for most vaccinated Americans and is using federal leverage to press nursing homes to vaccinate their staffs and deter states from banning school mask mandates. The decision was reported earlier by CNN One Wednesday afternoon, the president said his administration had been planning for the possibility of booster shots for months. released on Wednesday, as evidence that booster shots of the two mRNA vaccines would be needed in the coming months. The consensus was that protecting the unvaccinated before administering booster shots was critical, he said. But some experts said the new research did not back up the decision to recommend booster shots for all Americans.

Source: New York Times August 18, 2021 16:18 UTC