The latest round of boosters comes amid a swath of changes now greenlighted by FDA and CDC to COVID-19 vaccines.
, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention greenlighted a broad swath of changes on Wednesday that were first authorized by the Food and Drug Administration the day before.clears the final hurdle for eligible Americans to be able to get another round of the booster shots that were rolled out last year from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, which had been updated to include a"bivalent" recipe for the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron.
But older adults, ages 65 and older, can now get another bivalent shot as long as it has been at least four months after their last dose. People with compromised immune systems can get more doses as early as two months after their last bivalent shot.
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