The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday is asking an expert advisory panel to consider how often people should be boosted against COVID-19 and what those boosters should look like.
The Biden administration, vaccine manufacturers and at leastsuggest that annual fall boosters will help prevent severe disease and minimize the spread of the virus.
"If you're over 60, absolutely, you need to stay up to date" on boosters, said Dr. Carlos del Rio, president of the Infectious Disease Society of America, on Tuesday during a call with media. Protection against severe disease and death seems to be remaining strong among the young and healthy who've been triply vaccinated, or vaccinated and infected, he said.
Maniar said he likes the idea of offering people options of which shot to get: the two mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, the viral vector vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, or the protein-based vaccine from Novavax.
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