Overnight, the FDA authorized third doses of Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID vaccine for some people with weakened immune systems, like organ transplant recipients, and cancer patients.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – As coronavirus cases rise in our area and across the country, the FDA has officially authorized a COVID booster shot. Right now, it’s only for those with compromised immune systems. “I don’t feel it, I don’t look it, but I am it,” said Midtown East resident Marcy MacDonald. As CBS2’s John Dias reports, MacDonald,76, says she’s immunocompromised. The longtime New Yorker survived colon cancer, and says every day she is fighting to survive the COVID pandemic. “I was operated on at the end of January of 2020, so I rolled right out of Memorial Sloan Kettering and into a pandemic. That was interesting,” she said. Now, the fully vaccinated woman is looking forward to getting an extra COVID shot, preferably before her September road trip.
