Clark County health officials to discuss booster shot logistics

The Southern Nevada Health District volition big a quality briefing astatine 11 a.m. Friday to outline preliminary plans for rolling retired COVID-19 booster shots.

Scheduled speakers see Dr. Fermin Leguen, main wellness officer; Dr. Cort Lohff, main aesculapian officer; JoAnn Rupiper, main administrative nurse; and Sarah Lugo, assemblage wellness caregiver supervisor.

The briefing comes arsenic the federation prepares to rotation retired a third changeable of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to a wide swath of the population.

Federal regulators this week recommended a 3rd changeable of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for those 65 and older and for radical 50 to 64 with underlying wellness issues. Those 18 to 49 with underlying wellness conditions besides person the enactment of getting a booster shot.

In an antithetic move, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky Thursday nighttime rejected the proposal of the agency’s advisory sheet by besides authorizing booster shots for workers successful wellness attraction oregon different occupations that enactment them astatine higher risk, arsenic good arsenic for radical who unrecorded successful organization settings that summation their hazard of exposure, specified arsenic prisons oregon stateless shelters. Their inclusion aligns with the FDA’s booster authorization earlier this week.

The 3rd dose tin beryllium fixed six months aft the 2nd dose.

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