The new boosters come as COVID-19 cases decline, but health officials hope people think about the longer term as we enter the third pandemic winter.
The FDA cleared two options this week: one made by Pfizer for people as young as 12, and the other by Moderna, for adults 18 and older. The doses can be given to people who have completed their initial shots, whether or not they have also received boosters, as long as their last shot was at least two months ago.
“The updated COVID-19 boosters are formulated to better protect against the most recently circulating COVID-19 variant. They can help restore protection that has waned since previous vaccination and were designed to provide broader protection against newer variants,” Walensky said in a statement.“We anticipate about half of those people will be very interested and coming in initially and getting vaccinated,” she said.The community level of COVID-19 in L.A.
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