New Covid-19 booster shots targeting the highly contagious omicron variant could be available soon after Labor Day, and all Americans 12 years and older will be eligible for the shot, which experts hope will provide an additional tool in the fight against the coronaviruses
A nurse is administering a vaccine.
The new Covid shots are expected to be approved by the FDA next week, according to sources.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to sign off on the shots after a meeting on September 1 and 2, paving the way for them to be made available as early as September 3.
Moderna will only be offered to adults, according to the New York Times.
Those who have already received one or two booster shots are still eligible for the vaccine, even if they have recently received a dose, as long as they wait a few months, according to the Times.
Those who were recently boosted with the original Covid vaccine should get a booster within a couple of months.
It might be a good idea to wait to see how the data plays out in terms of how well the shot protects against infection and what the virus looks like at the time boosters.
Ten to fifteen million. According to a source familiar with the vaccine distribution, there will be a total of 171 million shots.
President Biden's chief medical adviser told the Times this week that they need to do better to protect the American public. We are nowhere near where we want to be due to the BA.5 outbreak.
According to the CDC, only half of those who have received the primary series of vaccines have received a booster dose.
In June, the FDA told pharmaceutical companies to update Covid vaccines to target the omicron substrains. Moderna and Pfizer applied to the FDA for emergency use authorizations for their booster shots. According to estimates from the CDC, BA.5 made up 88.7% of all coronaviruses in the U.S. There was an increase in Covid infections and hospitalizations in June and July due to the new strains. The new variant of Covid is more effective at evading immunity than the previous ones, according to data. The strains have a particular part of the virus that helps them bind to the cell. There are a number of factors that the federal government warns could fuel a rise in Covid infections. Marks told the Times Americans might not be as focused on vaccinations as they should be, while some experts think repeated booster shots might not be the best way to fight the Pandemic.
The Biden administration is planning a new booster campaign.
By Labor Day, the Biden team wants to have Omicron-targeting shots in arms.
When you should get your next shot is when the FDA recommends covid boosters.
Experts say that we cannot boost our way out of the covidemic.
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