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The United States has announced the launch of a new program for Covi-19 booster shots. According to health officials in the country, if you’re one of the 14 million people who received one shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, then this article will answer some of your important questions.

U.S. health officials including the CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, booster shots will be available within a month from the writing of this article. The health experts explained that vaccine-induced protection from the virus disappears within a period of getting the shot.

Therefore, getting boosting shots would help protect from the virus in the mid-term. Additionally, for people who received two doses of an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna will be able to get a booster shot after eight months have passed from their last dose.

“With those data in hand, we will keep the public informed with a timely plan for J&J booster shots as well,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement Wednesday.

Moreover, after the Covid-s delta variant surged across the globe, several Johnson & Johnson vaccine receivers felt a sense of urgency. The propagated news about the vaccine efficacy on long-term has raised questions for J&J recipients. Consequently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is said to evaluate the efficacy of a second J&J shot later this month.

“Patients cannot wait for perfect data,” Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University, tells CNBC Make It. “People who need additional protection now need to be given the option.”

Determining whether or not you need a Covid booster is “a complex decision that takes into account your medical history, your family circumstances and who you’re live with your Covid-19 exposures, as well as your risk tolerance,” Wen says.

“That is really what needs to happen in this case: Clinicians need to be able to exercise their judgment in order to recommend what is best for their patients,” Wen says.