Why the CDC recommends everyone get the new COVID vaccine booster for fall 2023
Vaccine experts considered narrower recommendations for only higher-risk groups, but decided almost all Americans could benefit.
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Vaccine experts considered narrower recommendations for only higher-risk groups, but decided almost all Americans could benefit.
The updated shots, which were greenlighted Monday by the Food and Drug Administration, have been reformulated to target the newer XBB variants of the virus.
The third pandemic winter is nowhere near as bad as the previous two, likely because most Americans have some immunity from shots and previous infections.
'We are seeing the normal busy, but not the very busy that I thought we would see,' said Juan Salazar, MD, physician in chief at Connecticut Children's in Hartford.
The third pandemic winter is nowhere near as bad as the previous two, likely because most Americans have some immunity from shots and previous infections.