Today's Opinions: Why the Biden administration’s recommendation on booster shots is a mistake

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Sign up for this newsletter Read online Your morning dose of Post commentary and guest opinions. Presented by Accenture       By Robert Gebelhoff Assistant editor  Email Here's a staggering statistic to put the Biden administration's recommendation for covid-19 booster shots into perspective: "Based on the suggested eight-month interval for third doses, the United States will need more than 120 million additional mRNA doses by the end of 2021. That's enough doses to vaccinate the population of covid-decimated Botswana 26 times over." That's from William F. Parker and Govind Persad, who write convincingly for The Post that the administration's new strategy to open up booster shots to Americans next month will only contribute to "vaccine apartheid." Has the United States given up on the effort to vaccinate a meaningful portion of the world's population? 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