Covid booster shot vote ‘not the end of the story’ says Fauci | First Thing

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A decision not to recommend booster vaccine shots for most Americans is not the end of the story", the White House chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, said on Sunday, two days after a scientific panel appeared to turn the Biden administration's plan for combating coronavirus on its head.

Fauci also said he did not believe a million coronavirus deaths in the US was an inevitability, despite the Delta variant-fuelled surge that last week brought the grim milestone of one in 500 Americans having fallen died of Covid.