UPDATE: CDC Director gives final approval --All American adults now eligible for coronavirus booster shots

All American adults now eligible for coronavirus booster shots Booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines are now available to anyone in the U.S. Nathaniel Weixel TheHill

Booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines are now available to anyone in the U.S. over the age of 18, after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky signed off on the recommendations of an agency advisory panel.

Effective immediately, tens of millions of people who are at least six months past their last Pfizer or Moderna shot are eligible for a booster dose. 

Friday's action represents the culmination of a long-running debate among experts over who should be eligible for booster shots and belatedly delivers on President Biden's promise of widespread boosters for all adults by September.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said that all adults are eligible, and in a second, last-minute vote, they explicitly recommended that everyone over the age of 50 should get a booster. ...