U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Sunday that people who got the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine will likely need COVID-19 booster shots, after he and other federal health officials said days ago that those who got Pfizer and Moderna vaccines would be recommended to get a third shot starting in September. “We believe that J&J recipients will likely need a booster, but we are waiting on some data from the company about a second dose of J&J so the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] can fully evaluate the safety and efficacy of that dose,” Murthy said in a CNN interview on Sunday. More data and studies are required, he said, adding when they’re completed, “we can present that to the FDA, and they can also review it for safety,” Murthy said. “And so as soon as those studies are done, we’ll have more to recommend to J&J recipients about …
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