Moderna president says 4th COVID-19 shot is probably only necessary for older and immunocompromised people

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Young, healthy people may opt out.

But Moderna President Stephen Hoge told Insider on Monday that people can be more selective about boosters from now on.

"I don't think you're going to be hearing, if you do, any kind of recommendations that would be across the board for everyone," Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said. "It very likely will take into account what subset of people have a diminished, or not, protection against the important parameters such as hospitalization.

The wild card, he added, is if another variant like Omicron poses an even greater challenge to our current vaccines. Hoge said he expects to see more variants of concern — strains that make the virus more transmissible, more capable of causing severe disease, or more resistant to vaccines and treatments — in the future. But he's hopeful that those variants won't be more dangerous than the ones we have now.

 

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