How to Use booster shot in a Sentence

booster shot

noun
  • He had to get two booster shots at his latest checkup.
  • 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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