(A booster for Pfizer vaccine recipientswas previously authorized.)

The FDAs decision on booster doses, while important, was actually an interim step.

The CDC director reviews the ACIP committees recommendations but can modify them.

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But CDC director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, allowed it.

But Glatt says its very difficult to make any prediction on this right now.

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