U.S. regulators authorized another round of COVID-19 booster shots Tuesday for older adults and those with compromised immune systems.The Food and Drug Administration issued new gui...
U.S. regulators authorized another round of COVID-19 booster shots Tuesday for older adults and those with compromised immune systems.
As for those with weakened immune systems, the agency said some can get another bivalent booster at least two months later. For everyone else, the FDA said the original versions of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are now outdated and will no longer be administered. Instead, people getting vaccinated will now receive the new omicron-targeted shot. The agency also said most unvaccinated individuals will only need one dose of the new vaccine, rather than multiple doses of the original mRNA vaccine.
The FDA says the new bivalent vaccines provide protections against both the original strain of the virus and the omicron strains known as BA.4 and BA.5.
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