Most Americans should get the modified COVID-19 vaccine, health officials announced Wednesday.
CDC advisors approved the new vaccine doses for anyone 6 months and older, and the CDC director quickly agreed with the committee’s recommendation.
The severity of the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided somewhat, but there are still thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths in the United States every week as a result of the disease.
Hospital admissions have increased since late summer, although the latest data suggests infections may be declining, especially in the southern United States.
But experts are concerned about the decline in immunity resulting from vaccines and previous cases of infection in many people, and a new dose may save many people.
Doctors hope enough people will get the vaccine to help avoid a “triple pandemic” like last year when hospitals were plagued by an early flu season, an outbreak of human respiratory syncytial virus, and a new winter spike in Covid infections.
2023-09-20 15:57:36
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