Prognosis
Fauci Says Covid Boosters Should Go ‘Soon’ to the Vulnerable
- Debate grows over booster needs and breakthrough cases
- Fauci calls for vaccine mandates in schools, businesses
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Anthony Fauci, the U.S.’s top infectious-disease doctor, said he’s “strongly in favor” of speeding booster shots to people with weakened immune systems, a further sign of how the delta variant continues to shift the strategies for curbing the pandemic.
“We need to look at them in a different light,” Fauci said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on Sunday. “We will almost certainly be boosting those people before we boost the general population that’s been vaccinated, and we should be doing that reasonably soon.”