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U(D54G1D)y+%!z!.!$!= Mayor Bill de Blasio urged on Friday that New York City’s pri- vate businesses require their workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus and signaled that he would introduce similar meas- ures for hundreds of thousands of municipal employees. The mayor’s comments came just days after he announced that all employees in the public hospi- tal system would have to either re- ceive a virus vaccine or submit to weekly testing. The move reflected growing concern that New York, like much of the United States, is on the verge of another wave of the pan- demic. In just a few weeks, case counts in the city have tripled, to more than 650 a day on average, while inoculation rates have lev- eled off. “If people want freedom, if peo- ple want jobs, if people want to live again, we have got to get more people vaccinated,” Mr. de Blasio said on Friday during a weekly ra- dio appearance on WNYC. “And obviously it’s time for whatever mandates we can achieve.” “I’m calling upon all New York City employers, including our pri- vate hospitals: Move immediately to some form of mandate, what- ever the maximum you feel you can do,” he added. Across the country, govern- ment officials and private busi- nesses have increasingly debated whether to require vaccinations, as the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus surges in many regions. Still, moves to adopt such measures have been limited. Some hospitals and health care systems, including NewYork- Presbyterian and Trinity Health, have announced vaccine man- NEW YORK MAYOR URGES EMPLOYERS TO REQUIRE SHOTS WAVE OF NEW INFECTIONS Spread of Delta Variant Leads to a Push for Vaccine Mandates This article is by Michael Gold, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Michael D. Shear. Continued on Page A13 MIAMI — A month ago, the number of Covid-19 patients ad- mitted at two University of Flor- ida hospitals in Jacksonville was down to 14. Now more than 140 people are hospitalized with the coronavirus, a tenfold increase over five weeks — and the highest number of Covid-19 patients this system has seen during the pan- demic. Debra Wells, 65, was among those admitted to one of the hospi- tals this month when what she thought was a cold grew worse and worse until she could not breathe. “I said, ‘Lord, I feel like I’m dying,’” she recalled. Like most of the patients who hospital officials say they are ad- mitting in Jacksonville and other fast-filling medical facilities in pockets around the country, Ms. Wells was unvaccinated. She had worried, she said, that the shots were not safe. “I was misinformed,” Ms. Wells said this week, after a five-day hospital stay. “I wasn’t ready, and I was scared.” A national uptick in coronavirus cases has led, in sudden and con- cerning fashion, to a steep rise in hospitalizations in some spots around the country where people have been slower to get vacci- nated, a predicament experts hoped might be avoided because the people contracting the infec- tion tend to be younger and healthier. Nationally, hospitalizations re- main relatively low, nowhere near earlier peaks of the pandemic. But in some regions with lagging vac- cination rates and rising virus cases — such as northeastern Florida, southwestern Missouri and southern Nevada — the highly contagious Delta variant has flooded intensive care units and Covid-19 wards that, not long ago, had seen their patient counts shrink. At the two hospitals in Jack- sonville, the number of Covid-19 patients is higher than last sum- Covid Patients Inundate I.C.U.s As Inoculations Lag in Florida By PATRICIA MAZZEI Continued on Page A11 Influx Suddenly Strains Hospitals That Had Seen Cases Fall CAP-HAÏTIEN, Haiti — Heck- led by protesters and surrounded by phalanxes of heavily armed guards, foreign diplomats and Haitian politicians attended the funeral of Haiti’s assassinated president on Friday, a tense event that laid bare a fractured nation’s problems instead of providing an opportunity for healing. Less than a half-hour into the funeral, foreign dignitaries includ- ing an American delegation led by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Green- field, departed over safety con- cerns set off by gunshots fired out- side the event. White House offi- cials said that the delegation members were safe and that they had flown back to the United States, cutting the trip short. The funeral was held in the fam- ily compound of the assassinated president, Jovenel Moïse, just out- side the northern city of Cap- Haïtien, with grandstands erected inside an arena around a central stage, dressed with white curtains and flowers, where his coffin was set, covered in a Haitian flag and guarded by four men in military uniforms. Though the setting was serene, the tensions that had rocked the streets the afternoon before leaked quickly into the ceremony. A line of Mr. Moïse’s supporters stood by the entrance to the fu- neral and yelled at arriving poli- ticians: “Justice for Jovenel!” When Haiti’s national police chief, Leon Charles, arrived, the crowd surged around him and erupted into shouting and finger pointing. As he passed the grand- stand of invited guests, many there also jumped to their feet to shout their displeasure. “He killed the president!” yelled Marie Michelle Nelcifor, adding she believed Mr. Moïse had telephoned Mr. Charles while As Haitian President Is Buried, Protests Blame Elites in Killing By CATHERINE PORTER Guarding the coffin of Jovenel Moïse, Haiti’s slain president. FEDERICO RIOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A6 TOKYO — The athletes marched into the arena masked and waving exuberantly. Dancers in pastel costumes and hats clapped and moved their arms in the air to whip up excitement. But there were no fans and no cheer- ing audience — only row upon row of mostly empty seats stretching into the reaches of the vast Olympic Stadium in central To- kyo. A year after originally sched- uled, the opening ceremony of the 32nd Summer Olympics unfolded in the midst of a tenacious pan- demic, with attendance limited to fewer than 1,000 dignitaries and other invited guests in a stadium built to seat 68,000. The Japanese public has grown exhausted with the pandemic and has widely opposed the Games. But the ceremony tried to project a world moving on from more than a year of doing battle with the vi- rus, as confetti doves fell from the sky and a rendition of “Imagine” on Jumbotrons reverberated through the huge stadium with performances by Angélique Kidjo, John Legend and Keith Urban. The organizers sprinkled tradi- tional Japanese culture through the festivities, staging what looked like a typical summer festi- val with lanterns and a taiko drumming soundtrack as well as an excerpt from a famous Kabuki play. Yet in other ways they em- braced a more modern outlook, selecting Naomi Osaka, Japan’s most famous athlete, to light the Olympic cauldron, and Rui Hachimura, the basketball star who plays for the Washington Wizards, as one of the flag bearers for Japan. They are just two of sev- eral mixed-race athletes who are representing a largely homo- geneous Japan at the Olympics. Although some competitions started earlier this week, the cere- mony on Friday represented the official start of the Olympics, with more than 11,000 athletes from 205 countries expected to partici- pate in 33 sports over the next two weeks. Nearly all of the events, like the opening ceremony, will be held without spectators, and the ath- letes will compete under strict protocols that limit their move- ment. Usually it is the Olympians who face considerable odds, but this time it was also the organizers who waged an uphill battle to get to this moment. What was meant to be a showcase of Japan’s gleam- ing efficiency, superior service culture and appeal as a tourist destination has instead been swamped by infection fears and host committee scandals. Tokyo Olympics Open at Last, With Somber Air and No Fans By MOTOKO RICH Attendance at the opening ceremony was limited to fewer than 1,000 dignitaries and other guests in a stadium built to seat 68,000. JAMES HILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Naomi Osaka lit the cauldron. HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page D6 SURGE Hospitalizations are trending upward in 45 states, straining health care centers in parts of the Midwest, West and South. PAGE A10 THIS WEEKEND Experts say pressures from heat and drought have pushed the state’s storied fisheries close to collapse. PAGE A9 NATIONAL A9-17 Crisis for Montana’s Trout Tig Notaro’s stand-up special took audio recorded during live performances, then combined it with animation. That sometimes pushed the humor further than she expected. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-6 A Comedian’s Laugh Lines Across the United States, entrepreneurs are appropriating the baby shower, an event previously reserved for expectant parents, usually mothers. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-5 Rise of the ‘Business Shower’ To be freed from a conservatorship, the pop star is likely to undergo a psychiat- ric evaluation. The evaluation process is an uneasy melding of legal standards and mental health criteria. PAGE C1 Testing Britney Spears A virus surge is causing companies to reconsider when they’ll require employ- ees to return, and whether they’ll re- quire them to be vaccinated. PAGE B1 Back-to-Office Detours Two decades after a draft sequence of the human genome was unveiled, a team has deciphered it all. PAGE A17 Scientists Finish DNA Puzzle When the coronavirus hit Singapore, Joan Poh juggled a return to hospital work with getting ready for the Tokyo Games. The Saturday Profile. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-8 Nurse. Rower. Olympian. In a unanimous vote by lawmakers, the country became the latest in Africa to abolish the death penalty. PAGE A7 Sierra Leone Bans Executions A proposal by Democrats to beef up the Internal Revenue Service so the agency can catch tax evaders has reopened deep wounds for Republicans. PAGE B1 Grudge Sets Back I.R.S. Plan Despite or because of his complicated upbringing, Nyjah Huston has become a world champion. PAGE D3 SPORTS D1-12 A Skateboarder’s Odyssey Jamelle Bouie PAGE A19 OPINION A18-19 KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. military aircraft struck a number of Taliban positions this week in support of faltering Afghan gov- ernment forces, in one of the first significant American reactions to the insurgents’ blistering advance across Afghanistan as U.S. troops withdraw. At least one of the strikes was against Taliban positions in the key southern city of Kandahar, slowing an advance that threat- ened to take over the city. The Taliban called the strikes “disobedience” to last year’s with- drawal agreement with the Amer- icans, and they warned of unspeci- fied “consequences” — an indica- tion that the airstrikes had an im- pact on the insurgent group. The scale and pace of the Tal- iban advance has provoked alarm among top U.S. military and civil- ian officials in recent days. The Taliban now threaten most of Af- ghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals and even Kabul, the national capi- tal. The group has overrun more than half of the country’s 400-odd districts, in many cases seizing them without a fight, since it be- gan its offensive in earnest in May. This week’s airstrikes, which took place Wednesday and Thurs- day, reflect both the level of Amer- ican worry and the Afghan mili- tary’s continued need for U.S. air support, as Washington attempts to end nearly 20 years of war in Alarmed by Taliban’s Surge, U.S. Launches 11th-Hour Airstrikes By ADAM NOSSITER and ERIC SCHMITT Afghan Forces Reel in Face of an Offensive Continued on Page A7 WASHINGTON — Biden ad- ministration health officials in- creasingly think that vulnerable populations will need booster shots even as research continues into how long the coronavirus vac- cines remain effective. Senior officials now say they ex- pect that people who are 65 and older or who have compromised immune systems will most likely need a third shot from Pfizer- BioNTech or Moderna, two vac- cines based on the same technol- ogy that have been used to inocu- late the vast majority of Ameri- cans thus far. That is a sharp shift from just a few weeks ago, when the administration said it thought there was not enough evidence to back boosters yet. On Thursday, a key official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the agency is exploring options to give patients with compromised immune sys- tems third doses even before reg- ulators broaden the emergency use authorization for coronavirus vaccines, a step that could come soon for the Pfizer vaccine. Dr. Amanda Cohn, the chief medical officer of the C.D.C.’s im- munizations division, told an advi- sory committee to the agency that officials were “actively looking into ways” to provide certain peo- ple access to booster shots “earli- er than any potential change in regulatory decisions.” “So stay tuned,” she added. The growing consensus within the administration that at least some Americans will need a booster is tied in part to research suggesting that the Pfizer vaccine is less effective against the co- ronavirus after about six months. More than half of those fully vacci- nated in the United States so far have received Pfizer’s vaccine, in two doses administered three weeks apart. Pfizer’s continuing global study of its clinical trial participants shows that four to six months af- ter the second dose, the vaccine’s effectiveness against symptomat- ic infection drops from a high of 95 Biden Advisers Expect Booster Will Be Needed Studies Show Vaccines Weaken Over Time By SHARON LaFRANIERE Continued on Page A11 Late Edition VOL. CLXX .... No. 59,129 © 2021 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2021 Today, sunny, high 83. Tonight, be- coming cloudy, showers late, low 70. Tomorrow, clouds and sunshine, showers, thunderstorms, humid, high 85. Weather map, Page A16. $3.00
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Mayor Bill de Blasio urged onFriday that New York City’s pri-vate businesses require theirworkers to get vaccinated againstthe coronavirus and signaled thathe would introduce similar meas-ures for hundreds of thousands ofmunicipal employees.
The mayor’s comments camejust days after he announced thatall employees in the public hospi-tal system would have to either re-ceive a virus vaccine or submit toweekly testing.
The move reflected growingconcern that New York, like muchof the United States, is on theverge of another wave of the pan-demic. In just a few weeks, casecounts in the city have tripled, tomore than 650 a day on average,while inoculation rates have lev-eled off.
“If people want freedom, if peo-ple want jobs, if people want to liveagain, we have got to get morepeople vaccinated,” Mr. de Blasiosaid on Friday during a weekly ra-dio appearance on WNYC. “Andobviously it’s time for whatevermandates we can achieve.”
“I’m calling upon all New YorkCity employers, including our pri-vate hospitals: Move immediatelyto some form of mandate, what-ever the maximum you feel youcan do,” he added.
Across the country, govern-ment officials and private busi-nesses have increasingly debatedwhether to require vaccinations,as the highly contagious Deltavariant of the virus surges inmany regions. Still, moves toadopt such measures have beenlimited.
Some hospitals and health caresystems, including NewYork-Presbyterian and Trinity Health,have announced vaccine man-
NEW YORK MAYORURGES EMPLOYERSTO REQUIRE SHOTS
WAVE OF NEW INFECTIONS
Spread of Delta VariantLeads to a Push forVaccine Mandates
This article is by Michael Gold,Emma G. Fitzsimmons and MichaelD. Shear.
Continued on Page A13
MIAMI — A month ago, thenumber of Covid-19 patients ad-mitted at two University of Flor-ida hospitals in Jacksonville wasdown to 14. Now more than 140people are hospitalized with thecoronavirus, a tenfold increaseover five weeks — and the highestnumber of Covid-19 patients thissystem has seen during the pan-demic.
Debra Wells, 65, was amongthose admitted to one of the hospi-tals this month when what shethought was a cold grew worseand worse until she could notbreathe. “I said, ‘Lord, I feel likeI’m dying,’” she recalled.
Like most of the patients whohospital officials say they are ad-mitting in Jacksonville and otherfast-filling medical facilities inpockets around the country, Ms.Wells was unvaccinated. She hadworried, she said, that the shotswere not safe.
“I was misinformed,” Ms. Wellssaid this week, after a five-dayhospital stay. “I wasn’t ready, andI was scared.”
A national uptick in coronaviruscases has led, in sudden and con-
cerning fashion, to a steep rise inhospitalizations in some spotsaround the country where peoplehave been slower to get vacci-nated, a predicament expertshoped might be avoided becausethe people contracting the infec-tion tend to be younger andhealthier.
Nationally, hospitalizations re-main relatively low, nowhere nearearlier peaks of the pandemic. Butin some regions with lagging vac-cination rates and rising viruscases — such as northeasternFlorida, southwestern Missouriand southern Nevada — thehighly contagious Delta varianthas flooded intensive care unitsand Covid-19 wards that, not longago, had seen their patient countsshrink.
At the two hospitals in Jack-sonville, the number of Covid-19patients is higher than last sum-
Covid Patients Inundate I.C.U.sAs Inoculations Lag in Florida
By PATRICIA MAZZEI
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Influx Suddenly StrainsHospitals That Had
Seen Cases Fall
CAP-HAÏTIEN, Haiti — Heck-led by protesters and surroundedby phalanxes of heavily armedguards, foreign diplomats andHaitian politicians attended thefuneral of Haiti’s assassinatedpresident on Friday, a tense eventthat laid bare a fractured nation’sproblems instead of providing anopportunity for healing.
Less than a half-hour into thefuneral, foreign dignitaries includ-ing an American delegation led bythe U.S. ambassador to the UnitedNations, Linda Thomas-Green-field, departed over safety con-cerns set off by gunshots fired out-side the event. White House offi-cials said that the delegationmembers were safe and that theyhad flown back to the UnitedStates, cutting the trip short.
The funeral was held in the fam-ily compound of the assassinatedpresident, Jovenel Moïse, just out-side the northern city of Cap-Haïtien, with grandstands erected
inside an arena around a centralstage, dressed with white curtainsand flowers, where his coffin wasset, covered in a Haitian flag andguarded by four men in militaryuniforms.
Though the setting was serene,the tensions that had rocked thestreets the afternoon beforeleaked quickly into the ceremony.
A line of Mr. Moïse’s supportersstood by the entrance to the fu-neral and yelled at arriving poli-ticians: “Justice for Jovenel!”
When Haiti’s national policechief, Leon Charles, arrived, thecrowd surged around him anderupted into shouting and fingerpointing. As he passed the grand-stand of invited guests, manythere also jumped to their feet toshout their displeasure.
“He killed the president!”yelled Marie Michelle Nelcifor,adding she believed Mr. Moïsehad telephoned Mr. Charles while
As Haitian President Is Buried,Protests Blame Elites in Killing
By CATHERINE PORTER
Guarding the coffin of Jovenel Moïse, Haiti’s slain president.FEDERICO RIOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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TOKYO — The athletesmarched into the arena maskedand waving exuberantly. Dancersin pastel costumes and hatsclapped and moved their arms inthe air to whip up excitement. Butthere were no fans and no cheer-ing audience — only row upon rowof mostly empty seats stretchinginto the reaches of the vastOlympic Stadium in central To-kyo.
A year after originally sched-uled, the opening ceremony of the32nd Summer Olympics unfoldedin the midst of a tenacious pan-demic, with attendance limited tofewer than 1,000 dignitaries andother invited guests in a stadiumbuilt to seat 68,000.
The Japanese public has grownexhausted with the pandemic andhas widely opposed the Games.But the ceremony tried to projecta world moving on from more thana year of doing battle with the vi-rus, as confetti doves fell from thesky and a rendition of “Imagine”on Jumbotrons reverberatedthrough the huge stadium withperformances by Angélique Kidjo,John Legend and Keith Urban.
The organizers sprinkled tradi-tional Japanese culture throughthe festivities, staging whatlooked like a typical summer festi-val with lanterns and a taikodrumming soundtrack as well asan excerpt from a famous Kabukiplay.
Yet in other ways they em-braced a more modern outlook,selecting Naomi Osaka, Japan’smost famous athlete, to light theOlympic cauldron, and RuiHachimura, the basketball starwho plays for the WashingtonWizards, as one of the flag bearersfor Japan. They are just two of sev-eral mixed-race athletes who arerepresenting a largely homo-
geneous Japan at the Olympics.Although some competitions
started earlier this week, the cere-mony on Friday represented theofficial start of the Olympics, withmore than 11,000 athletes from205 countries expected to partici-pate in 33 sports over the next twoweeks.
Nearly all of the events, like theopening ceremony, will be heldwithout spectators, and the ath-letes will compete under strictprotocols that limit their move-ment.
Usually it is the Olympians whoface considerable odds, but thistime it was also the organizerswho waged an uphill battle to getto this moment. What was meantto be a showcase of Japan’s gleam-ing efficiency, superior serviceculture and appeal as a touristdestination has instead beenswamped by infection fears andhost committee scandals.
Tokyo Olympics Open at Last,With Somber Air and No Fans
By MOTOKO RICH
Attendance at the opening ceremony was limited to fewer than 1,000 dignitaries and other guests in a stadium built to seat 68,000.JAMES HILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Naomi Osaka lit the cauldron.HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page D6SURGE Hospitalizations are trending upward in 45 states, straininghealth care centers in parts of the Midwest, West and South. PAGE A10
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Experts say pressures from heat anddrought have pushed the state’s storiedfisheries close to collapse. PAGE A9
NATIONAL A9-17
Crisis for Montana’s Trout
Tig Notaro’s stand-up special took audiorecorded during live performances,then combined it with animation. Thatsometimes pushed the humor furtherthan she expected. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-6
A Comedian’s Laugh LinesAcross the United States, entrepreneursare appropriating the baby shower, anevent previously reserved for expectantparents, usually mothers. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-5
Rise of the ‘Business Shower’
To be freed from a conservatorship, thepop star is likely to undergo a psychiat-ric evaluation. The evaluation processis an uneasy melding of legal standardsand mental health criteria. PAGE C1
Testing Britney SpearsA virus surge is causing companies toreconsider when they’ll require employ-ees to return, and whether they’ll re-quire them to be vaccinated. PAGE B1
Back-to-Office Detours
Two decades after a draft sequence ofthe human genome was unveiled, ateam has deciphered it all. PAGE A17
Scientists Finish DNA Puzzle
When the coronavirus hit Singapore,Joan Poh juggled a return to hospitalwork with getting ready for the TokyoGames. The Saturday Profile. PAGE A4
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Nurse. Rower. Olympian.
In a unanimous vote by lawmakers, thecountry became the latest in Africa toabolish the death penalty. PAGE A7
Sierra Leone Bans Executions
A proposal by Democrats to beef up theInternal Revenue Service so the agencycan catch tax evaders has reopeneddeep wounds for Republicans. PAGE B1
Grudge Sets Back I.R.S. Plan
Despite or because of his complicatedupbringing, Nyjah Huston has becomea world champion. PAGE D3
SPORTS D1-12
A Skateboarder’s Odyssey
Jamelle Bouie PAGE A19
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KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.military aircraft struck a numberof Taliban positions this week insupport of faltering Afghan gov-ernment forces, in one of the firstsignificant American reactions tothe insurgents’ blistering advanceacross Afghanistan as U.S. troopswithdraw.
At least one of the strikes wasagainst Taliban positions in thekey southern city of Kandahar,slowing an advance that threat-ened to take over the city.
The Taliban called the strikes“disobedience” to last year’s with-drawal agreement with the Amer-icans, and they warned of unspeci-fied “consequences” — an indica-tion that the airstrikes had an im-pact on the insurgent group.
The scale and pace of the Tal-
iban advance has provoked alarmamong top U.S. military and civil-ian officials in recent days. TheTaliban now threaten most of Af-ghanistan’s 34 provincial capitalsand even Kabul, the national capi-
tal. The group has overrun morethan half of the country’s 400-odddistricts, in many cases seizingthem without a fight, since it be-gan its offensive in earnest in May.
This week’s airstrikes, whichtook place Wednesday and Thurs-day, reflect both the level of Amer-ican worry and the Afghan mili-tary’s continued need for U.S. airsupport, as Washington attemptsto end nearly 20 years of war in
Alarmed by Taliban’s Surge, U.S. Launches 11th-Hour AirstrikesBy ADAM NOSSITERand ERIC SCHMITT
Afghan Forces Reel inFace of an Offensive
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WASHINGTON — Biden ad-ministration health officials in-creasingly think that vulnerablepopulations will need boostershots even as research continuesinto how long the coronavirus vac-cines remain effective.
Senior officials now say they ex-pect that people who are 65 andolder or who have compromisedimmune systems will most likelyneed a third shot from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, two vac-cines based on the same technol-ogy that have been used to inocu-late the vast majority of Ameri-cans thus far. That is a sharp shiftfrom just a few weeks ago, whenthe administration said it thoughtthere was not enough evidence toback boosters yet.
On Thursday, a key official atthe Centers for Disease Controland Prevention said the agency isexploring options to give patientswith compromised immune sys-tems third doses even before reg-ulators broaden the emergencyuse authorization for coronavirusvaccines, a step that could comesoon for the Pfizer vaccine.
Dr. Amanda Cohn, the chiefmedical officer of the C.D.C.’s im-munizations division, told an advi-sory committee to the agency thatofficials were “actively lookinginto ways” to provide certain peo-ple access to booster shots “earli-er than any potential change inregulatory decisions.”
“So stay tuned,” she added.The growing consensus within
the administration that at leastsome Americans will need abooster is tied in part to researchsuggesting that the Pfizer vaccineis less effective against the co-ronavirus after about six months.More than half of those fully vacci-nated in the United States so farhave received Pfizer’s vaccine, intwo doses administered threeweeks apart.
Pfizer’s continuing global studyof its clinical trial participantsshows that four to six months af-ter the second dose, the vaccine’seffectiveness against symptomat-ic infection drops from a high of 95
Biden AdvisersExpect BoosterWill Be Needed
Studies Show VaccinesWeaken Over Time
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
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