Here's Everything You Need To Know If You're Totally Confused About COVID Booster Shots

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Here's Everything You Need To Know If You're Totally Confused About COVID Booster Shots
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It’s been...confusing!

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So do you need to get a shot? How can you get one? And what the hell was all the confusion about? Here's everything you need to know:A booster shot is an additional dose of a vaccine intended to"boost" the immune response to a particular virus. Booster doses are routinely administered for many vaccines.

Although there’s so far no clear evidence from the US that waning immunity is leading to an increase in severe illness and hospitalization among vaccinated people,shows that people age 60 and older who had their second Pfizer dose in March were less likely to get severe COVID compared to those who got their second dose in January. That trend was similar for younger people.

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