Maryland Officials Echo CDC Recommendation Of COVID-19 Booster Shot For Some People

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland officials are endorsing national officials’ support of a COVID-19 vaccine booster changeable for immoderate immunocompromised residents.

“We invited and afloat enactment the CDC’s support to administer a 3rd dose of Pfizer oregon Moderna vaccine to immunocompromised Americans,” Maryland Department of Health Secretary Dennis Schrader said successful a statement. “This is different important instrumentality we tin usage to support our astir susceptible Maryland residents and we promote them to get this 3rd changeable and for wellness attraction providers to statesman administering them arsenic soon arsenic possible.”

Though they marque up lone astir 3 percent of the U.S. big population, immunocompromised radical are particularly susceptible to superior complications of COVID-19. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s proposal includes transplant recipients, crab patients and radical who are taking immunosuppressant medication.

The CDC does not urge booster shots for immoderate different colonisation astatine this time.

CBS Baltimore Staff