Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, said that in the United States the decision to vaccinate with a third dose of the vaccine will be made in the coming weeks. It is possible that vaccinations will begin this fall.
Health care workers, nursing home residents and other elderly Americans may be the first to be vaccinated, he said.
He noted that this is necessary due to the spread of the Delta strain in the United States, but the final decision has not yet been made.
US health officials claim that the level of protection of Americans from the coronavirus is high enough, since vaccinations are carried out with effective vaccines Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson. At the same time, some of them hinted that the third dose would come earlier than expected.
“There are concerns that the effectiveness of the vaccine may begin to decline. And Delta is an unpleasant problem that we need to deal with, “Collins said.
It will take the government a couple of weeks to assess how much the Delta strain has hit the United States, he said. After that, the final decision on vaccination with the third dose will be made.
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