Will springtime be booster time -- again? Many experts agree that it could be premature to start giving most adults a booster shot on top of the one already offered.
is 91% effective, at first, at preventing hospitalizations. But that drops to 78% at months 4 to 5."Nonetheless, the level of 78 [%] is still a good protective area," Fauci said.
At the White House briefing Wednesday, CDC director Rochelle Walensky, MD, said federal officials are ''cautiously optimistic about the trajectory we are on," noting that the current 7-day daily average of cases is about 147,000, down about 40% from the previous week. Hospital admissions, at 9,500 a day, have declined about 28%, and the 7-day average of daily deaths is about 2,200, a decrease of about 9% from the prior week.
Could premature boosting by healthy people have a downside?"I don't see any immediate harm [to that]. However, I'm not so sure about the benefit,” Schaffner says.
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