More than five million Americans could be eligible for booster shots of Covid-19 vaccine by late September under a Biden administration plan to combat the Delta variant by giving extra doses eight months after initial vaccinations. Officials are expected to announce the strategy at a White House briefing on Wednesday. Nursing home residents, health care workers and emergency workers would probably be first in line. But the plan depends on several crucial steps taking place in the next few weeks. Moderna’s chief executive, Stéphane Bancel, has said the firm plans to submit its data to the F.D.A.

Source: New York Times August 17, 2021 22:37 UTC