On Friday, an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration recommended authorizing a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine solely for recipients who are 65 or older or face high risk of severe COVID-19. It declined to recommend boosters for other recipients ages 16 or older, as both Pfizer and President Biden have urged the FDA to do.
Yet nearly three-quarters of vaccinated Americans say they would get a booster if it were available to them, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a number that holds across nearly every age group and not just among older, more vulnerable Americans.
It remains to be seen how the overwhelming