US ready to deploy booster shots if needed, Biden aide says

The U.S. government is ready to deploy booster shots if scientists and health officials determine they’re needed in the fight against Covid-19, White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients said.

With increases in cases in parts of the U.S. linked to low vaccination rates and the more-contagious delta variant that’s spreading throughout the nation, Zients said President Joe Biden’s administration will push ahead with encouraging young people and others to get shots. "We have a lot more work to do across the summer months to reach unvaccinated people, to make it easy for people to get their shots and their second shots,” Zients said on CBS’s "Face the Nation” on Sunday. "We’re going to continue to do everything we can to continue vaccinating millions and millions of Americans each week.”