President Biden and first lady Jill Biden to get coronavirus vaccine boosters
Source: Washington Post
President Joe Biden said he and first lady Jill Biden will get coronavirus vaccine booster shots, as his administration announced that it would begin offering extra vaccinations to Americans, starting the week of Sept. 20.
Health officials have recommend a third shot eight months after full vaccination in a bid to fight off waning immunity and help end the pandemic more swiftly.
“We’re going to get the booster shots,” Biden told George Stephanopoulos in an interview that aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America Thursday. "We got our shots all the way back in, I think, December so it’s past time.”
Biden, 78, got his first vaccine dose on Dec. 21, 2020, and second shot on Jan. 11, 2021 as president-elect. He received the Pfizer vaccine at a hospital near his home in Delaware, with cameras rolling both times.
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EXCLUSIVE: When asked by @GStephanopoulos if he and the first lady had received booster shots, Pres. Biden says: “We’re gonna get the booster shots … We got our shots all the way back in, I think, December. So it’s past time.” https://abcn.ws/3D2mN6b
7:35 AM · Aug 19, 2021
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President Biden says he and first lady Jill Biden will get their coronavirus vaccine booster shots when they are available. In an interview that aired Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Biden said: “We got our shots all the way back in, I think, December so it’s past time.”
The Biden administration said it would begin offering coronavirus booster shots the week of Sept. 20, after concluding that a third shot is needed to fight off waning immunity.
Elsewhere, some schools in the Sun Belt are defying Republican governors by finding ways to mandate masks as cases in the region surge, while Democrats lean into vaccination requirements for public institutions.
In Texas, a school system has made masks a part of its dress code for the academic year, hoping to exploit a possible loophole in a statewide ban on face coverings by Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who currently has covid-19. And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is now facing a revolt from a growing number of school districts that have required masks for the new school year despite his ban on mandates and threat to punish those who defy it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/19/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/
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so I think they are trying to get the study data results of efficacy at the 6-month point, which would be some time in September for the earliest recipients, just to make sure. 
was that you could supposedly get similar efficacy with a single dose - and this was a boon to ensure that people could get their shot and not have to "time" getting another one (particularly if they had a hectic home/work schedule), and it would be preferable for people who were home bound or those who are terrified of needles, and it has been generally recommended for those in the transient community, as they could be one and done where you find them.
But what happened (other than similar that happened with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and a "pause" ) was that it was "late to the party", where 2 other vaccines had already been out there for a few months.
There are others who are or would be in the same boat - e.g., Sanofi-GSK's vaccine, where they had to pull back their initial attempt and start over because the candidate they selected didn't have the desired efficacy, and then they just gave that up and decided to focus on their monoclonal antibody treatment... And it is also applying to NovaVax, who is now supposedly ready, but a couple weeks ago, they announced a delay to 4th quarter for submission (due to manufacturing issues) and they will be coming into a "crowded market", although they promise to still produce 100 million doses (they had applied for approvals overseas as well).
AND... I had to shift away from posting this reply to do a bunch of breaking news posts 
but just stumbled on this article for you -
Health experts say that boosters are likely to be needed eventually and that more data should be available in the next several weeks.
By Emily Anthes
Aug. 18, 2021
Americans who received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines should get a booster shot eight months after their second vaccine dose, federal health officials said on Wednesday. The boosters will be available beginning Sept. 20, if the Food and Drug Administration agrees to the plan. They will go first to health care workers, nursing home residents and older adults, who were the first to receive the initial round of vaccinations after they were authorized in December.
But the recommendation does not apply to the nearly 14 million Americans who received the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. “For people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, we anticipate vaccine boosters will likely be needed,” Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, said at a White House news briefing on Wednesday. He added: “We expect more data on J.&J. in the coming weeks. With those data in hand, we will keep the public informed of a timely plan for J.&J. booster shots.” In the meantime, here are answers to some common questions.
Why didn’t officials recommend boosters for people who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine?
All of the vaccines authorized in the United States provide strong protection against severe disease and death from Covid-19. But the booster recommendation was based on data suggesting that the protection provided by the mRNA vaccines against infection and mild disease has been waning over time, officials said on Wednesday. “Even though this new data affirms that vaccine protection remains high against the worst outcomes of Covid,” Dr. Murthy said at the briefing, “we are concerned that this pattern of decline we are seeing will continue in the months ahead, which could lead to reduced protection against severe disease, hospitalization and death.”
But less data is available on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which was not authorized until the end of February, two months after the mRNA vaccines. (The Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses a modified adenovirus to deliver its instructions to human cells.) In addition, Johnson & Johnson vaccinations were temporarily paused while health officials investigated reports that a very small number of people had developed a rare blood-clotting condition after receiving the vaccine. More than 150 million Americans have gotten mRNA vaccines, far exceeding the 14 million who have received the Johnson & Johnson shot, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/health/coronavirus-johnson-vaccine-booster.html
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...and so did a bunch of our colleagues. We just made appointments, told them it was a booster (we took our cards with the previous 2 shots), and that was it. Even though we could have gotten a medical recommendation, it was not necessary.
We are in Florida. We got the original shots in January.
