https://news.yahoo.com/u-reportedly-advise-8-month-035748227.html

• Francis Collins

Peter Weber, Senior editorMon, August 16, 2021, 8:57 PM·2 min readIn this article:

• Francis CollinsAmerican geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health

The Biden administration will announce as soon as Wednesday that most eligible Americans who received the COVID-19 vaccine will need a booster shot eight months after getting their second injection,The Associated PressandThe Washington PostreportedMonday night, citing at least four people familiar with the decision. U.S. health officials have for months said the approved vaccines remain effective at preventing serious illness, hospitalization, and death, but new data from Israel and elsewhere suggest the Delta variant and perhaps the passage of time have rendered the vaccines less effective.

“I think Delta changed everything,” one person familiar with the decisiontells thePost.

The Food and Drug Administrationapproved a booster shotfor…