What to know about choosing a booster
for anybody who got the single-dose Johnson & Johnson/Janssen shot at least two months ago. Among people who originally got the mRNA-based shots made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, boosters are available at least six months after the second dose for elderly adults, those with underlying medical conditions and people who live or work in high-exposure settings, such as long-term-care facilities. Pfizer on Nov. 9 asked the U.S.
But even that result isn’t as straightforward as it may seem, says Dr. Mohammad Sobhanie, an infectious disease physician at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Antibodies are only one piece of immunity, so “whether or not the more robust antibody response would mean that it’s a better vaccine is left to be said,” Sobhanie says.
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