Fauci: No COVID-19 booster shot needed ‘right now’ despite Pfizer announcement

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that Americans “right now” do not need a booster shot to protect against the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 — after Pfizer announced it was developing a third jab.

“Right now, given the data and the information we have, we do not need to give people a third shot, a boost, superimposed upon the two doses you get with the mRNA and the one-dose you get with J&J,” said Fauci on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Still, the White House chief medical advisor left the door open to the possibility of recommending booster shots in the future as trials and studies into the extra dose continue.