https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/20/if-we-need-it-why-wait-for-the-covid-19-vaccine-booster/ > The Bay Area’s big rollout of COVID-19 booster shots can begin as soon as federal and state authorities give the go-ahead, but that won’t be until late September, according to county officials, hospitals and health care systems. > But faced right now with growing evidence that our vaccines are losing their edge to fight off the highly contagious delta variant, the anxious inoculated are asking: Why wait?