Walgreens Starts Offering Boosters to Pfizer Vaccine Recipients

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. has started to give booster shots for Covid-19 at drug stores across the U.S., the day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines on who should get them, the company said in a statement Friday.

The CDC recommended boosters for people who received their second dose of the vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE at least six months ago and are 65 or older or live in a long-term care facility, and for those over 50 with an underlying medical condition. The agency also said that people between 18 and 49 with certain conditions may get a booster, as well as people whose work puts them at high risk of exposure to Covid, such a health-care workers.