The FDA pointedly isn’t calling this latest round a COVID-19 “booster” but instead a vaccine updated to better match the currently circulating virus.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. approved updated COVID-19 vaccines Monday amid rising case numbers, though what so far has been less severe cases as in previous years.The Food and Drug Administration decision opens thefrom Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most Americans even if they’ve never had a coronavirus vaccination, the Associated Press reported. It’s part of a shift to treat fall updates of the COVID-19 vaccine much like getting a yearly flu shot.
This total was below 100 for several days the first half of July, but was over 1,400 when the year started.announced that it would no longer be tracking the state hospitalization trendsAs protection wanes over time, the coronavirus continually churns out new variants that can dodge prior immunity. It’s been a year since the last time the vaccines were tweaked, and only about 20% of adults ever received that earlier update.
The FDA pointedly, AP noted, isn’t calling this latest round a “booster” but instead a vaccine updated to better match the currently circulating virus. The new recipe targets an omicron variant named XBB.1.5 — replacing outdated combination vaccines that mixed protection against the original coronavirus strain and an older version of omicron.
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