EU Evaluating Whether to Recommend COVID-19 Boosters

Health workers speak with Mauricette, a 78-year-old French woman, after she received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the country, at the Rene-Muret hospital in Sevran, on the outskirts of Paris, France, on Dec. 27, 2020. Thomas Samson/Pool via Reuters

The European Union’s drug regulator said it is now evaluating whether to recommend COVID-19 booster shots, according to a statement posted Monday.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it’s evaluating the use of another dose for the vaccine to be given six months after the second dose among individuals aged 16 and older.