CDC, FDA Say People ‘Do Not Need a Booster Shot at This Time’ After Pfizer Intends to Seek OK for 3rd Shot

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared for packaging at the company’s facility in Puurs, Belgium, in March 2021. Pfizer via AP

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a joint statement late Thursday saying that Americans who have been fully vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus “do not need a booster shot at this time.”

But the two federal health agencies also said that they “are prepared for booster doses if and when the science demonstrates that they are needed.”