Posted on Sep 2, 2022
CDC recommends new booster shots to fight omicron
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/09/01/ [login to see] /cdc-advisers-back-new-booster-shots-to-fight-omicron
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed the first updated COVID-19 booster shots.
The decision came just hours after advisers to the CDC voted to recommend reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. The vote was 13 in favor and one no vote.
"The updated COVID-19 boosters are formulated to better protect against the most recently circulating COVID-19 variant," Walensky said in a written statement announcing the recommendation.
"If you are eligible, there is no bad time to get your COVID-19 booster and I strongly encourage you to receive it," Walensky said.
The booster shots target both the original strain of the coronavirus and the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants that most people are catching now. This double-barreled vaccine is called a bivalent vaccine.
The CDC advisers recommended that anyone age 12 and older get the new Pfizer-BioNTech boosters as authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. The updated Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is authorized for anyone 18 and older.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed the first updated COVID-19 booster shots.
The decision came just hours after advisers to the CDC voted to recommend reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. The vote was 13 in favor and one no vote.
"The updated COVID-19 boosters are formulated to better protect against the most recently circulating COVID-19 variant," Walensky said in a written statement announcing the recommendation.
"If you are eligible, there is no bad time to get your COVID-19 booster and I strongly encourage you to receive it," Walensky said.
The booster shots target both the original strain of the coronavirus and the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants that most people are catching now. This double-barreled vaccine is called a bivalent vaccine.
The CDC advisers recommended that anyone age 12 and older get the new Pfizer-BioNTech boosters as authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. The updated Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is authorized for anyone 18 and older.
CDC recommends new booster shots to fight omicron
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New Covid boosters, which target BA.5, haven't yet been tested in people. How well will they...
The lack of human data means officials likely won’t know how much better the new shots are — if at all — until the fall booster campaign is well underway.
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Maj Robert Thornton
I find the same thing in my research CMSgt (Join to see). We haven’t seen all the data that was hidden with the first batch.
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