COVID booster dose for certain people approved by FDA

The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that older individuals and those with weakened immune systems are eligible for another dose of the updated COVID-19 booster.

According to the FDA’s announcement, most people who received a single dose of the booster are not eligible for a second dose.

But people over the age of 65, or individuals with weakened immune systems, who received a single dose of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, or booster, are eligible.

Those over the age of 65, the FDA said, must wait at least four months from when they received the most recent booster, while those who are immunocompromised only must wait two months.