Moderna Has a New Omicron Booster—Here’s What We Know About It
Dr. Russo points out that, while COVID-19 vaccines have done a good job of keeping most fully vaccinated people from developing severe COVID-19, being hospitalized with the virus, and dying, they’re still “imperfect.”
Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, agrees that this is needed. “If the goal is to optimize the vaccine to best protect against circulating variants, updates seem necessary until a universal coronavirus vaccine is developed,” he says. Dr. Schaffner calls the booster “COVID vaccine 2.0,” adding that he and other infectious disease experts “hope that this vaccine will provide even broader protection against COVID going forward.”From here, it goes off to the FDA and, from there, the CDC. “It hasn’t been authorized yet by the FDA or CDC but we anticipate that Moderna and Pfizer—they’re working on the same thing—will have such a vaccine available this fall,” Dr. Schaffner says.
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