The United States of America had permitted Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines to be utilized as booster jabs and stated Americans are presently able to acquire doses of vaccines that are dissimilar from the one they previously received.
The permission on the vaccines mixing and matching emerged 1 month following the Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) allowed Pfizer booster jabs for certain Americans involving those people aged beyond 65 years old or deemed at high risk of severe illness and those those who are employed as flont liners during the pandemic.
According to the United States health officials, below 5% of Americans have by now obtained their Covid-19 booster jabs although with tens millions of US residents which are presently qualified for a third job many people are still confused about the need of the booster shots and who needs them.
As of today, more than 103 million US residents have been fully inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine doses while about 7 million have acquired booster shots.
Based on the data there are 88% efficacy, in terms of preventing hospital admissions, are present in the full dose of Pfizer vaccine.
In relation to this, the Center for DIsease Control had published the data last September that shows that the vaccine’s effectiveness drops to 77% after 120 days.
In the case of the Moderna vaccine beyond 69 million people have been fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccines with 1.5 million people having obtained booster jabs.
Full dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine were administer to 15 million US residents (which is only a one dose vaccine) while CDC had revealed that only 9,800 people had received the J&J booster shots.
Moreover, the World Health Organization had urged more prosperous countries to postpone extensive rollouts of booster shots until vaccination rates climb in lesser developed countries as the organization believes that it is not suitable for more wealthier nations to use the booster shots to their people.