How to Use booster shot in a Sentence

booster shot

noun
  • He had to get two booster shots at his latest checkup.
  • Even if the booster shot were based on the delta variant, that variant passed through a long time ago.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 22 July 2022
  • Now is the time to get a new bivalent booster shot, Fauci said.
    Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2022
  • For the first booster shot, just 68 percent of the senior citizen group got them.
    Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 13 June 2022
  • At Discount Drug Mart, demand for the flu vaccine and the new booster shot has been roughly equal.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The booster shot is 10 micrograms, the same dosage as the primary series for the age group and a third of the dosage given to people ages 12 and up.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 17 May 2022
  • And among those that have kept them, most don’t mandate that employees get the latest booster shot.
    Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • There is no evidence to show that his aortic aneurysm was related to the booster shot.
    Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Last week, the government said all children in London ages 1 to 9 would be offered a booster shot.
    CBS News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • But among those who have gone up to six months without a booster shot, the vaccine efficacy drops to less than 25%.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 16 June 2023
  • For instance, anyone older than 65 can now get a booster shot.
    Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2022
  • As of mid-October, 90% had received two shots, but only 57% had a booster shot.
    Emily Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • For Meta’s social media apps, Reels are proving the equivalent of a booster shot.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Of those children, only about 16 percent went on to receive the original booster shot, which was cleared for that age group in May.
    Noah Weiland, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • As of the end of September, about half the population had heard only a little, or nothing at all, about the booster shot.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Forty percent of those 80 and older have had a booster shot, based on government data.
    Raffaele Huang, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Less than half of all nursing home residents have received the latest booster shot, Jha said.
    Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2022
  • About two-thirds of Americans have gotten at least two shots, and only about one-third have gotten at least one booster shot.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The original booster shot is no longer authorized for use.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The company, which has not yet produced a bivalent booster shot, proposed that new strains be chosen by the end of the first quarter of the year — so March rather than June.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Just 40 percent of Chinese older than 80 have received a booster shot.
    Sammy Westfall, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Yet only about 43% of adults 65 and older have received a bivalent booster shot.
    Apoorva Mandavilli, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • She was vaccinated and had gotten one booster shot, but not a second.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Numerous studies have confirmed that the first booster shot is a critical weapon against covid.
    Liz Szabo, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • The updated Omicron bivalent booster shot is available to those age 12 and up.
    Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • More than 90% of seniors have been fully vaccinated, and about two-thirds have received their first booster shot.
    Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News, 12 May 2022
  • The current vaccine, including the booster shot, was designed to target the original strain.
    Peter Loftus, WSJ, 4 May 2022
  • Across Florida, 28% of people have received a booster shot.
    Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2022
  • The lieutenant governor is fully vaccinated and had a booster shot last fall, the news release said.
    Dallas News, 24 July 2022
  • My mission: to overcome a long-standing needle phobia just long enough to get that third coronavirus booster shot.
    Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022

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