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U.S. health officials increasingly think people who are 65 or older or immunocompromised will need Covid vaccine booster shots.

Friday, July 23, 2021 7:53 PM EST

Senior Biden administration officials now say they expect that people who are 65 or older or who have compromised immune systems will most likely need a third shot from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, which have been used to inoculate the vast majority of Americans thus far.

It is a sharp shift from just a few weeks ago, when the administration said it thought there was not enough evidence to back boosters yet.

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