FDA Okays Third Vaccine For Immunocompromised

(AP) – Americans at high risk from COVID-19 because of severely weakened immune systems are now allowed to get a third vaccination in hopes of better protection. Government advisers on Friday grappled with exactly who qualifies. The Food and Drug Administration has ruled that transplant recipients and other similarly immunocompromised patients can get a third dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. But the decision offers an extra dose only to those high-risk groups – not the general public. These patients have been clamoring for months for better protection, some of them traveling across state lines or lying to get another dose.