SNY - CDC postpones COVID-19 booster shot review amid debate over third dose

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has pushed back by one week a meeting set to review Covid booster shots as debate swells about the requirement of a third shot, Bloomberg reports. CDC’s independent advisory committee, the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), originally scheduled to meet on August 24 to discuss the need for boosters, is now set to convene the following week. ACIP will make further recommendations on the use of boosters for the public after a thorough review of the evidence. “The data are coming in rapidly, and we want to make sure we follow our process for review and to ensure we can have a robust deliberation at the next open meeting,” Grace Lee, chair of the committee, wrote in an email. She said she expects that meeting to happen “soon.” On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced plans for COVID-19 booster shots, eight

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CDC postpones COVID-19 booster shot review amid debate over third dose