US CDC panel urges broad use of updated Covid-19 vaccines

The updated shots are monovalent, or single-target vaccines, aimed at what is called the XBB.1.5 variant.

The shots are part of a push by public health officials to align the next Covid vaccines more closely with the actual circulating variant of the virus, much as annual flu shots are designed. US CDC panel members said recommending the vaccine for everybody and making it a simple recommendation outweighed the complications created by tailoring the recommendations more precisely.

Pfizer and Moderna have said that shots can roll out in coming days and the CDC said they expect the first shot to be given within 48 hours of the final recommendation. “I do think that a broad boosting strategy makes sense,” said Caitlin Rivers, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore, adding that while the virus was not causing as many hospitalisations and deaths as before, it is still circulating.

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