FDA Favors , Updated COVID Boosters for Fall, , Shelves Summer Boosters .<br />The Food and Drug Administration announced that its focus is now on updated boosters for those under 50.<br />The shots are scheduled to be available <br />to the public in September.<br />Many health professionals feel it is the right decision and could help to bolster trust in federal health institutions.<br />We can't give a booster now <br />and then again in 1.5 months <br />or two months – that will <br />decrease trust, Dr. Monica Gandhi, UC San Francisco, <br />via NPR News.<br />Health professionals explained why two boosters in a <br />short period of time could be "counter-productive.".<br />If you get a booster now with the original formulation of the vaccine, this may in fact be counter-productive. , Dr. Celine Gounder, Kaiser Family Foundation, <br />via NPR News.<br />It may prevent the second booster dose given this fall from taking and from you developing an immune response to <br />that booster, Dr. Celine Gounder, Kaiser Family Foundation, <br />via NPR News.<br />Others expressed skepticism at the effectiveness of the planned updated booster.<br />People should not regard <br />them as some sort of magic bullet that gives them <br />super-strong protection, Dr. John Moore, Weill Cornell Medicine, <br />via NPR News.<br />These are not going to be magic bullet game-changers because they're not that much better <br />than the already available <br />vaccine boosters, Dr. John Moore, Weill Cornell Medicine, <br />via NPR News.<br />Other professionals feel the plan to wait may put people at an unnecessary risk.<br />You're talking about you know literally hundreds of millions of people who are at a higher risk than they need to be for months, Dr. Robert Wachter, UC San Francisco, <br />via NPR News.<br />And that will mean potentially millions of preventable infections, certainly thousands of preventable hospitalizations, and probably hundreds of preventable deaths, Dr. Robert Wachter, UC San Francisco, <br />via NPR News
