We've known for a while booster shots are coming.

No vaccine, at least not within this category,

is going to have an indefinite amount of protection.

Dr. Anthony Faucipe on the Today Show last week

was asked whether it's inevitable

that all Americans considered fully vaccinated

will eventually need a booster.

An answer to your question, it's right.

Inevitably, there will be a time

when we'll have to give boost.

What we're doing literally on a weekly and monthly basis

is following cohorts of patients to determine

if, when and whom, should get it.

Now, that determination is apparently close.

This week, NPR confirmed reports

that by the administration health officials

are coalescing around a plan that would advise

booster shots for most fully vaccinated Americans

eight months after their last dose.

The White House says it will announce more details

Wednesday afternoon.

Boosters, a source told NPR, could be approved

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