An advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that those 6 months and older receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
U.S. regulators have approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, which are aimed at revving up protection this fall and winter.The CDC advisory committee voted to recommend the new vaccinations as authorized by the FDA.can receive a single dose of this autumn’s updated COVID-19 vaccine from either Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech, as long as it has been two months since their last dose.
“The updated vaccines are expected to provide good protection against COVID-19 from the currently circulating variants. Barring the emergence of a markedly more virulent variant, the FDA anticipates that the composition of COVID-19 vaccines may need to be updated annually, as is done for the seasonal influenza vaccine,” the agency said.
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