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Covid-19 vaccine booster jabs will be offered to "all Americans" from 20 September, according to US officials. The jabs will first be given to healthcare workers and older people who were vaccinated at least eight months ago. A final decision still requires approval. However, the The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a suspension on booster vaccines to allow for poorer nations to catch up. According to the WHO, low-income countries have only been able to administer 1.5 doses for every 100 people due to a lack of supply.

Chuck Hufstetler, an anaesthetist at the Redmond Regional Hospital in the US state of Georgia says he would have a booster shot. He says he wouldn't take a vaccine from someone else who has not been vaccinated - but as vaccines are expiring in the US, it makes sense to take it.

"If that vaccine was going to someone else in another country, I'd be glad to give it up but if it's going to expire like the 600,000 doses here, then I'm going to take it, because I think there's some benefit to it."

Photo: A nurse adminsters a vaccine Credit: Getty Images

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