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Sep 13, 2023 · The new boosters are a much closer match to currently circulating variants than prior vaccines, say federal health officials. They're updated versions of the existing Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech ...
Nov 30, 2021 · The FDA and the CDC have concluded that mixing or matching vaccines when getting a booster dose is safe and effective. Regardless of the initial vaccine you received, any of the three available vaccines may be given as a booster. Plenty of unknowns. The release of these new recommendations for vaccine boosters raises a number of questions:
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- Why would another COVID vaccination help? The updated vaccines are not expected to prevent all cases of COVID, including those causing mild illness; rather, their aim is to reduce severe illness, hospitalization, and death from infection.
- How is the updated COVID vaccine different from the previous one? The bivalent booster, which is no longer available, was introduced in the fall of 2022.
- Why isn’t the new COVID vaccine considered a booster? The FDA is calling the new shots “updated vaccines” in anticipation of needing to provide updated formulas annually, similar to the flu shot, which changes each year.
- How safe is the updated COVID vaccine? COVID vaccines are safe and effective, according to the CDC. The safety of COVID vaccines has been rigorously monitored and evaluated since their emergency use authorization (EUA) in December 2020.
Sep 14, 2023 · Hospitalization rates for COVID-19 rose from 1.95 per 100,000 people in the week ending July 8 to 5.68 in the week ending Sept. 2, according to the CDC. During most weeks since mid-July, 500 to 600 people have died from COVID-19, the agency reports. Still, those figures remain low compared with the peaks of the pandemic, when 2,000 to 3,000 ...
Jan 26, 2023 · That day has finally come. In the fall of 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized—and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended—two updated boosters. The boosters target two Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5. While the original mRNA coronavirus vaccines have proven effective at preventing death and ...
Jan 31, 2022 · January 31, 2022. A new study from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirms what Mayo Clinic and other experts have been saying: COVID-19 booster vaccinations improve protection against severe illness and hospitalization. The study examined people who had three doses of the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines, as well as whether ...
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