KANSAS CITY – Metro area public health directors encourage eligible Pfizer vaccine recipients to continue protecting themselves and their families by getting the Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot from a primary care provider or pharmacy.

Eligible individuals without a primary care provider are asked to contact their local public health department to learn how to arrange a booster dose.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to allow a single booster dose for eligible groups at least six months after completing the initial two-dose series of the Pfizer vaccine.

The FDA has identified the following booster-eligible groups:

• Individuals 65 years of age and older;

• Individuals 18 through 64 years of age at high risk of severe COVID-19; and

• Individuals 18 through 64 years of age whose frequent institutional or occupational exposure puts them at high risk of serious complications of COVID-19, including severe COVID-19.

The Center…