A national advisory committee is expected to vote Thursday on whether Americans should pivot to an annual COVID-19 shot (like a flu shot) vs. periodic booster shots.
the change on Monday, says an annual shot vs. periodic boosters could simplify the process to ensure more people stay vaccinated and protected against severe COVID-19 infection.If accepted, the vaccine formula would be decided each June and Americans could start getting their annualKeep in mind: Older Americans and those who are immunocompromised may need more than one dose of the annual COVID-19 shot.
“Employers, nursing homes, and other facilities could offer the two shots together, and a combined shot may even be possible in the future.” Carlos del Rio, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta and president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, agrees. So far, European officials are not considering an annual COVID-19 vaccination schedule, says Annelies Zinkernagel, MD, PhD, of the University of Zurich and president of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
“We cannot predict the future of which variants might develop for COVID, but the hope is that a booster would provide broad coverage against a wide array of possible variants.” “Just like the influenza vaccine, it may be that some years the shot is less useful, and some years the shot is more useful,” he says, depending on how the virus changes over time and which strain the vaccine targets. “On average, yearly updated boosters should provide the protection predicted by our analysis.”.
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