Top federal health officials have told the White House to scale back a plan to offer coronavirus booster shots to the general public later this month, saying that regulators need more time to collect and review all the necessary data, according to people familiar with the discussion.
Asked about the meeting, a White House spokesman on Friday said, "We always said we would follow the science, and this is all part of a process that is now underway," adding that the administration was awaiting a "Full review and approval" of booster shots by the F.D.A. as well as a recommendation from the C.D.C. "When that approval and recommendation are made," the spokesman, Chris Meagher, said, "We will be ready to implement the plan our nation's top doctors developed so that we are staying ahead of this virus."
"The plan is for every adult to get a booster shot eight months after you got your second shot," he said on Aug. 18, adding, "It will make you safer, and for longer. And it will help us end the pandemic faster."
Like Mr. Biden, members of his pandemic response team have said that the plan depended on the F.D.A. and the C.D.C. authorizing the booster shots.
Since the White House announced the booster plan in mid-August, they said, new hurdles appeared.
Pfizer completed its booster application to the F.D.A. last week, officials said, and Moderna has just initiated its own.
Even though Pfizer has asked the F.D.A. to approve booster doses for people 16 and up, the agency could decide to restrict who gets a booster.
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