Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously Friday to recommend the agency authorize an extra dose of Johnson & Johnson ’s Covid-19 vaccine, to shore up protection against the coronavirus.

The panel of outside doctors and experts voted 19-0 to recommend that all adults who received a first dose of the J&J vaccine should get the second dose at least two months later.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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