The new boosters will be available to anyone 18 and older for Moderna's, and anyone over the age of 12 for Pfizer-BioNTech's.
This August 2022 photo provided by Pfizer shows vials of the company's updated COVID-19 vaccine during production in Kalamazoo, Mich. U.S. regulators have authorized updated COVID-19 boosters, the first to directly target today's most common omicron strain. The move on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2022, by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives.
The new boosters will be available to anyone 18 and older for Moderna's, and anyone over the age of 12 for Pfizer-BioNTech's. Older adults have been eligible for several months."If you are eligible, there is no bad time to get your COVID-19 booster and I strongly encourage you to receive it," the Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky said Thursday after endorsing an advisory committee's recommendation to make the shots widely available.
A spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services said the doses are expected to ship out in the next few days, so Texans should be able to make appointments next week. Like previous boosters, these will be available at pharmacies, standalone health clinics and through local health departments, the agency said.While the rate of deaths from Covid have fallen sharply from their peak last winter, Texas was still reporting between 20 and 30 known daily COVID deaths in August.
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