Israel Approves COVID-19 Booster Shot For Elderly Population

Those 60 and older who are already fully vaccinated can get a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Israel’s prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated. The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel the first country to offer a third dose of a Western vaccine to its citizens on a wide scale. “I'm announcing this evening the beginning of the campaign to receive the booster vaccine, the third vaccine,” Bennett said. “Reality proves the vaccines are safe. Reality also proves the vaccines protect against severe morbidity and death. And like the flu vaccine that needs to be renewed from time to time, it is the same in this case.”