5 questions about booster shots answered

5 questions about booster shots answered

Emily AnthesCoronavirus reporting

When do I need to get it?

Eight months after your second Pfizer or Moderna shot. When the F.D.A. If a third dose is approved, the first booster doses will be available on September 20th.

Health care workers, nursing home residents, and other elderly Americans – the first to receive the vaccines – will be the first to receive boosts.

Officials will likely recommend that people get a third dose of the same vaccine they were originally given.