Barring any “pandemic curveballs,” the newly authorized combination vaccines against COVID-19 will move most eligible Americans closer to just getting a COVID-19 shot once a year, the White House said today.
which the FDA authorized for emergency use and the CDC recommended as of Sept. 1.
“We know FDA is working on both updating the primary series and making booster shots for kids under 12, the bivalent, but that work is ongoing,” Jha said. Although the exact timeline for both remains unknown, “I expect that maybe updates on the booster for kids under 12 [is coming] at some point later in the fall,” he said.
“What I think people need to appreciate is although it's very important that we are now matching the new updated vaccine with the circulating virus, the original ancestral strain vaccine created a very broad degree of coverage that did very well against many of the variants,” he said.
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