It's unclear if all the extra doses the CDC reported were administered in immunocompromised people.
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices debated the need for boosters Monday, saying theDr. Helen Keipp Talbot, a voting member of the CDC advisory group, told the committee Monday that many hospitals in the south are already administering third doses in health-care workers and patients.
New Jersey officials said Monday more than 36,000 extra doses have been administered to the immunocompromised, frontline health-care workers and seniors so far. State health commissioner Judy Persichilli said the state is looking to identify more people who qualify for a third dose. "Nationally we think about 3% of the population is immunocompromised, so we're really asking particularly medical directors in long-term care to do a deep analysis of those medical records and identify individuals who should be queued up to get that third dose right now," she said.
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