Pfizer begins testing COVID-19 booster shot with pneumococcal vaccine

Monday, May 24, 2021
Pfizer began administering its first COVID-19 booster shots Monday.

The pharmaceutical company is studying a third dose of the vaccine and a pneumococcal vaccine candidate.
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The trial is looking at safety when the vaccines are co-administered, and will follow up six months later.

Pneumococcal vaccines help prevent illnesses like pneumonia.

Six hundred adults over the age of 65 are in the trial.
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Some will receive both shots, others just one shot and a placebo.

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