{"id":102575,"date":"2022-03-30T07:14:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T12:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=102575"},"modified":"2022-03-30T07:14:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T12:14:34","slug":"fda-authorizes-second-vaccine-booster-for-those-50-and-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/03\/30\/fda-authorizes-second-vaccine-booster-for-those-50-and-older\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Authorizes Second Vaccine Booster for Those 50 and Older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102576 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FDA-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FDA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FDA-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FDA.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FDA-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FDA-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FDA-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a fourth dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for people 50 and over.<\/p>\n<p>Previously a fourth dose was only authorized for people 12 and up, who are badly immunocompromised.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control will not weigh in on how to implement the FDA\u2019s authorization.<\/p>\n<p>People wanting the fourth shot should only do so at least four months after the previous booster, the FDA said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA\u2019s authorization comes as COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are falling after a winter surge of the omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new subvariant, BA.2, is spreading in Europe and the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly two-thirds of Americans are fully vaccinated, meaning they\u2019ve had two doses of Pfizer or Moderna or one dose of Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine. Only half of those eligible have gotten a first booster.<\/p>\n<p>While the vaccines did not stop omicron from circulating widely, health officials say they did help those infected avoid serious illness or death.<\/p>\n<p>The government is also considering authorizing a fourth dose for everyone in the Fall when cases could surge again.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some information in this report comes from The Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a fourth dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for people 50 and over. Previously a fourth dose was only authorized for people 12 and up, who are badly immunocompromised. The U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control will not weigh in on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102578,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102575\/revisions\/102578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}