that COVID-19 vaccines will likely become a yearly occurrence, like the annual flu shot, unless a "dramatically" different variant of the virus emerges.The officials said this likelihood was based on the new, updated bivalent booster shots authorized by thelast week, which protects against the original strain of the virus and the currently circulating dominant strain.
The bivalent booster shots, which target the original strain and the now-dominant BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, will be widely available around the country this week.
"Get your updated COVID-19 shot as soon as you're eligible, in order to protect yourself, your family and your community against COVID-19 this fall and winter," Fauci“Barring those variant curveballs, for a large majority of Americans, we are moving to the point where a single annual COVID shot should provide a high degree of protection against serious illness all year. That’s an important milestone," White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha said at the briefing.
Jha said some particularly vulnerable groups of people, such as the immunocompromised, may have to get more frequent coronavirus vaccines.The big picture: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the seven-day average of COVID hospitalizations was down to around 4,500 per day, a 14% decrease over the prior week."Modeling projections show that an uptake of updated COVID-19 vaccine doses similar to an annual flu vaccine coverage early this fall could prevent as many as 100,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths, and save billions of dollars in direct medical costs," Walensky said.
Annual for suckers who trust Big Pharma.
If I'm not mistaken most of the medical community disagrees with that policy i.e. once annually is basically useless due to at tops 6 months efficacy.
I’m encouraging all leftists and liberals to call early to schedule their booster. As Aubrey always said, “there is not a moment to lose.”
If you’re still taking a Covid-19 vaccine in 2022, I feel sorry for you.
These days, Axios is about as good as the news media gets. Yet even they are incapable of asking 'considering that acquired immunity wanes after about 4 months, and there's no evidence that COVID-19 is 'seasonal', when would you have us taking this 'annual' vaccine'? 🙄
It’s a nasty disease, hit me Doc
“In other news Sudden Adult Death Syndrome has skyrocketed by 600%.” “This is in no way linked to the vaccines it’s just an unexplained phenomenon.” Come on people your smarter than this.
I initially misread this... 😬
Oh hey, it's been a while since I've seen some old, recycled news. Great to see it's adding to the compost of the world.
There's no such thing as 'covid vaccines'. They are as vaccines as trans women are women.
Lol for liberals
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It must be slow in the Axios newsroom right now. This isn't news!