Biden receives his updated Covid 19 vaccine
Aged 80, the American president was injected with a new booster dose against the coronavirus. Across the Atlantic, hospitalizations are on the rise.
PublishedSeptember 23, 2023, 7:52 p.m.
Joe Biden also received a new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine.
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US President Joe Biden, 80, received a dose of the updated Covid-19 vaccine, as well as the annual flu vaccine, his doctor announced on Saturday.
“As we enter cold and flu season, the President encourages all Americans to follow his lead,” wrote the President’s personal physician, Kevin O’Connor.
Joe Biden had also received “several weeks ago” a new vaccine against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), responsible for respiratory infections and which can particularly prove dangerous in the elderly and babies.
Number of hospitalizations on the rise
U.S. health officials now recommend that all Americans 60 and older receive an RSV vaccine.
They also authorized last week an updated version of the anti-Covid 19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, better adapted to the variants of the virus currently in circulation.
The number of hospitalizations linked to Covid 19 has been increasing in the United States in recent weeks, but the success of this new vaccination campaign is uncertain: the previous booster dose against Covid-19 had only been carried out by 17 % of US population.
(AFP)
2023-09-23 17:52:49
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