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Dr. Scott Gottlieb sees Covid vaccine boosters for vulnerable people in U.S. as early as September - CNBC
Aug 02, 2021 1 min, 26 secs

Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday he believes that Covid vaccine booster shots will start to be given in the U.S.

"My guess is sometime by September or October we will be giving booster shots to older individuals and certainly immunocompromised," said the former Food and Drug Administration chief, currently a board member at several companies including Pfizer.

Gottlieb, who led the FDA from 2017 to 2019 during Donald Trump's presidency, said the booster shot would be a third dose of the existing vaccine available in the U.S., barring any change in the virus that would render the vaccines ineffective against current strains. He said the U.S.

government has purchased enough vaccines to give booster shots to its entire population. .

Some Americans have already found ways to get additional doses of the Covid vaccines, with some even "mixing and matching" vaccines to receive extra shots from different companies.

Scott Gottlieb sees Covid vaccine boosters for vulnerable people in U.S.

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"The South will come out of this in a couple of weeks but you're going to see cases start to pick up in the North [as well]," Gottlieb said, adding he doesn't believe the wave of infections will hit Northern states as heavily since they have higher vaccination rates

This is a big country so this epidemic wave is going to hit different regions at different points in time," Gottlieb said

With more time, he said it may be discovered that spacing apart the first two doses of vaccine distribution may give people a more durable response against the virus

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