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J&J Covid vaccine recipients can get supplemental Pfizer or Moderna dose in San Francisco - CNBC
Aug 03, 2021 1 min, 14 secs

The San Francisco Department of Public Health and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital said Tuesday they are allowing patients who received Johnson & Johnson's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine to get a second shot produced by either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna.

J&J recipients can make a special request to get a "supplemental dose" of an mRNA vaccine, city health officials said in a statement to CNBC, declining to call the second shots "boosters." J&J's vaccine requires only one dose and recipients are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the shot.

On a call with reporters later Tuesday, San Francisco health officials said they are allowing patients to get the extra shots due to the high number of requests they were receiving from residents.

"We have gotten requests based on patients talking to their physicians, and that's why we are allowing the accommodations," said Naveena Bobba, deputy director of health at the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

The CDC does not currently recommend Americans mix Covid shots in most circumstances, and federal health officials say booster doses of the vaccines are not needed at this time.

The announcement from San Francisco health officials comes as some Americans say they are finding ways to get additional doses of the Covid vaccines — with some even going as far as receiving the extra shots from different companies — due to concerns about the highly contagious delta variant.

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