How to Use booster dose in a Sentence

booster dose

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  • The emergence of new variants and the need for booster doses may increase demand even further.
    — Peter J. Hotez, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2021
  • Vaccine makers are still studying when seniors might need to come back for a booster dose of RSV vaccine in the coming years.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 29 June 2023
  • The vaccine — given in the arm just like a flu shot or Covid shot — consists of four doses, spread out over two months, followed by a booster dose every two months.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 12 June 2023
  • Thus far, no schedule for a booster dose has been approved for mpox to boost immunity as case rates begin to build.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023
  • The move aligns with the FDA’s actions this week to allow these groups to get additional booster doses ahead of its fall vaccination campaign.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The authorization of a booster dose would allow families to give their young children a fourth dose to better protect them against more recent sublineages of the virus.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2023
  • For now, getting another bivalent booster dose is not authorized by the FDA.
    — Carla Delgado, Verywell Health, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Half a decade later, Borrell, now the European Union’s top diplomat, may be wondering whether the continent — and, in particular, his nation — is in need of a booster dose.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends waiting three months after an infection to get a booster dose.
    — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Last month, the FDA approved a second bivalent booster dose for individuals 65 years and older, and those with weakened immune systems.
    — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2023
  • And while protection against mild infections is short-lived, booster doses continue to do a good job fighting severe disease and death even as more contagious variants have popped up.
    — Lauran Neergaard, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • This included first-time doses of the vaccine for eligible jennies along with a booster dose for the initial control group for the fertility management method.
    — The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Previously, Novavax was only authorized as a first booster dose for people who were unwilling or unable to get an mRNA shot.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The analysis also looked at protection when receiving the original booster dose.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 4 May 2023
  • Studies have suggested the vaccine remains protective for at least two years, with one study now underway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to explore a booster dose given five years after initial vaccination.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends a booster dose for people at elevated risk of exposure.
    — Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • For those at medium risk, the group recommends primary vaccinations and first booster doses but does not recommend routine additional boosters.
    — Carma Hassan, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Novavax is on thin ice Novavax, the company whose corporate missteps repeatedly sidelined an effective Covid-19 vaccine, is relying on demand for booster doses to remain solvent.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Bivalent boosters have replaced all previous monovalent booster doses.
    — Geetika Gupta, Verywell Health, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Eligible Americans will be able to receive booster doses immediately.
    — Apoorva Mandavilli, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023

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