The Biden administration recommended Wednesday that people get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot eight months after their second dose of Pfizer or Moderna, with Johnson & Johnson expected to follow close behind. Meanwhile, children around the country are returning to school without any vaccine approved for those under age 12 and some Republican governors doubling-down on their attacks on mask mandates in schools.
Jim Braude was joined on Greater Boston by Dr. Carole Allen, a pediatrician and the president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, to discuss what it all means for youth across the country and in Massachusetts.
Allen said everyone in schools — teachers, staff and students — should be masked this fall. “The Delta variant is unpredictable and rising right now," she said. "This is a way to mitigate the risk for every person.”
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