PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is about to release new guidance on COVID-19 booster shots for people who are immunocompromised. The new guidelines will shorten the length of time between their third dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine and a fourth shot.
Currently immunocompromised individuals in the United States are advised to wait five months before getting a fourth shot, but CBS News Medical Contributor Dr. David Agus says there has been confusion about that timing.
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“Pharmacies have been turning individuals down, even though the CDC have recommended a fourth shot for people who had received Moderna or Pfizer and are severely or moderately immunocompromised five months after the original booster, or the third shot," he said.
The new guidelines say that it should be three months after that first booster, and that everyone who is moderately to severely immunocompromised should get a fourth shot, CBS News medical contributor Dr. David Agus said.
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For those who got the Moderna vaccine, this applies to ages 18 and older, and for those who got the Pfizer vaccine, 12 and older, he said.
The CDC is also going to recommend that immunocompromised people who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine get two additional vaccine doses rather than just one, and that those boosters should be at least 28 days apart.