CDC Vaccine Advisors Recommend Moderna and Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Booster Doses

(CNN) – Vaccine advisers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted Thursday to recommend booster doses of Moderna and Johnson’s covid-19 vaccines. & Johnson.

CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices accepted emergency use authorizations from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for each vaccine.

Members generally agreed that people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine need a second vaccine, as that vaccine is less effective than Moderna and Pfizer in preventing infection.