Get the shot, Biden appeals after booster
US President says 23% of Americans shunning jab causing ‘damage’ to the rest
President Joe Biden may have gotten ahead of the government’s scientists in announcing prematurely that virtually all Americans would begin getting Covid-19 booster shots this fall, but he made a show of getting his own. The president spoke briefly before he received a Pfizer-BioNTech booster on Monday afternoon.
“Let me be clear,” Biden said before he got the shot. “Boosters are important. But the most important thing we need to do is get more people vaccinated.
The vast majority of Americans are doing the right thing.”
His third shot came only days after federal regulators moved to allow millions of Americans to get Pfizer booster shots if individuals received a second dose of that vaccine at least six months ago and met new eligibility rules.
Biden said that about 23 per cent of adult Americans had not received a single dose of the vaccine, and they were causing “an awful lot of damage for the rest of the country.”
A Reuters/Ipsos national survey found that 76 per cent of Americans who have received at least one jab want a booster.