People might mistakenly think the COVID-19 vaccines will completely block infection, but the shots are mainly designed to prevent severe illness, says Louis Mansky, a virus researcher at the University of Minnesota.
The healthcare and frontline workers and citizens above 60 years of age with comorbidities would be administered the third dose of the same vaccine they had been given before.
California was the first state to require health care workers to be vaccinated, a rule that took effect in September.
The recommendation came amid demands for a booster dose of covid vaccines by lawmakers during a discussion in the Lok Sabha on the pandemic situation in the country.
Last week, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that over 74 percent of the eligible population in India has received the first dose of the Covid vaccine.
The FDA meetings come as U.S. vaccinations have climbed back above 1 million per day on average.
Biden told reporters, "It's hard to acknowledge I'm over 65, but I'll be getting my booster shot."
The booster plan marks an important shift in the nation's vaccination drive. Britain and Israel are already giving a third round of shots over strong objections from the World Health Organization that poor countries don't have enough for their initial doses.
Amid talks of a third shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, the government on Thursday said that booster doses were not the "central theme" in scientific and public healthcare discussions at the moment.
Even as the approvals are pending, the Joe Biden administration has announced plans to offer third doses to people who received the Pfizer and Moderna shots.
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