Are you 'fully vaccinated' without a booster? The CDC says yes—for now
Though there will be no immediate update, the increasingly widespread availability of Covid-19 booster shots could eventually change the definition of what it means to be “fully vaccinated,” the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, as some other countries have already started tightening their requirements.Speaking at a White House Covid-19 briefing, Dr.
For now, full vaccination against Covid-19 will continue to require two doses of an mRNA vaccine or one dose of Johnson & Johnson’s jab. But the agency will “continue to look at this” as booster doses become more widespread, Walensky said, adding the agency “may need to update our definition of fully vaccinated in the future.” How a change of definition by the CDC would impact U.S. federal, state and local vaccine mandates, many of which hinge on people getting “fully vaccinated.
—including Austria, Israel and Switzerland—have set expiration dates for the “fully vaccinated” status travelers must have when visiting their countries. These updates require travelers to top up with additional doses The Food and Drug Administration and CDC have green lit booster shots for millions of Americans based on evidence that vaccines’ protection against infection wanes over time .
for use among certain high-risk groups and all adult recipients of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose shot. 69%. That’s how many Americans qualify as “fully vaccinated,” according to a tracker run by
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