Dr. Anthony Fauci on the threat from Omicron: "If you want to be fully protected, get boosted"
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is emphatically calling on people to get their COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, even if they're considered "fully vaccinated" without it.
"We are telling everybody, and I will state it very clearly now, that optimum protection is with a boost," Fauci said Thursday in an interview on CBSN. "If you are not boosted, get boosted. What is called by definition, for legal or other purposes, a 'fully vaccinated person,' is, in fact, irrelevant. If you want to be fully protected, get boosted. I am saying it very loud and very clear right now."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a booster six months after getting the second dose of Pfizer or Moderna's vaccine, or two months after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson shot.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.