How to Use booster shot in a Sentence
booster shot
noun- He had to get two booster shots at his latest checkup.
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The vaccine booster shot may be offered by appointment or on a walk-in basis.
— Julie Washington, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2021 -
Since then, consumers became concerned about the strength of the company’s booster shot.
— Richard Henry Suttmeier, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021 -
Pfizer is expected to be first to win approval from the FDA for a booster shot.
— Alexander Tin, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2021 -
Whether most fully vaccinated people need a booster shot at this point remains a point of heated debate.
— Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 Sep. 2021 -
The new booster shot endorsements only apply to the Pfizer vaccine.
— USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2021 -
Research shows that people who got the latest booster shot were 54% less likely to be infected with Covid this winter.
— Erika Edwards, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024 -
The department’s booster shot directive comes as longterm care facilities are facing historic staffing shortages.
— BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021 -
Johnson & Johnson has submitted data on its booster shot to the FDA for review.
— Dallas News, 24 Sep. 2021 -
As long as vaccines are preventing people from getting severely ill, Offit says there’s not a strong reason to think that a booster shot would make people much safer.
— Sarah Todd, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2021 -
The company also said the booster shot gives 100% protection against severe or critical symptoms.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2021 -
Then, teenagers can get a booster shot at the age of 16.
— Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2022 -
So is there a second booster shot in the near future for the U.S.?
— Macaela MacKenzie, SELF, 4 Jan. 2022 -
The goal is to build up your immune system, and the booster shot is going to do that.
— ABC News, 2 Jan. 2022 -
Even if the booster shot were based on the delta variant, that variant passed through a long time ago.
— Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 22 July 2022 -
And around 65% of Brits have had a booster shot, according to data from the BBC.
— Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2022 -
Trump will probably have to do a lot worse than get a booster shot to lose his base.
— Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2022 -
Now is the time to get a new bivalent booster shot, Fauci said.
— Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2022 -
For the first booster shot, just 68 percent of the senior citizen group got them.
— Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 13 June 2022 -
At Discount Drug Mart, demand for the flu vaccine and the new booster shot has been roughly equal.
— Julie Washington, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022 -
The booster shot is 10 micrograms, the same dosage as the primary series for the age group and a third of the dosage given to people ages 12 and up.
— Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 17 May 2022 -
And among those that have kept them, most don’t mandate that employees get the latest booster shot.
— Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022 -
Moderna's booster shot will not be the same as its initial shot.
— Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2021 -
In Britain, 85% of people age 12 and up have had two vaccine doses and almost two-thirds have had a third booster shot.
— Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2022 -
Should people age 50+ get their second booster shot now, or wait?
— Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2022 -
There is no evidence to show that his aortic aneurysm was related to the booster shot.
— Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022 -
Last week, the government said all children in London ages 1 to 9 would be offered a booster shot.
— CBS News, 22 Aug. 2022 -
Even short-term visitors like me could now register and get a booster shot free of charge.
— E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022 -
But among those who have gone up to six months without a booster shot, the vaccine efficacy drops to less than 25%.
— Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 16 June 2023 -
The study analyzed data from 303 people who received the mRNA vaccine as well as a booster shot.
— Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 22 Aug. 2023
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