Scott Gottlieb, the former Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, said on Sunday that the US officials might eventually consider people fully vaccined if they've had their booster dose.
I think at some point they're going to, but not this year, I think eventually this will be considered the three-dose vaccine, but I would be hard-pressed to believe CDC is going to make that recommendation any time soon, in part because of this debate about whether or
The federal government's definition of fully vaccine is not changing at the moment, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
People who received two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine are still considered fully vaccine-free.
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Fauci said on Sunday that health officials were monitoring people who received booster shots to see if they were still protected.
The US Food and Drug Administration last week expanded its emergency authorization for booster shot eligibility, making all adults eligible to receive them after previously allowing them for older and at-risk populations.
Some state leaders think that the definition of fully vaccine has changed to include a booster dose.
Gottlieb said that in cases where people are six months out from the second dose, they're mandated three doses because they're using the vaccine as a way to control transmission.
There are people in the public health committee who don't think that's a good way to use the vaccine. This is a debate that is going on in the public health community. The CDC's approach to how they've embraced boosters is reflective of the debate.
