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NEW YORK CITY (dpa-AFX) - Vaccine partners Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE are seeking emergency use authorization or EUA from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to offer their bivalent COVID-19
BioNTech’s Omicron-specific vaccine is now available to uninfected adults as a fourth dose or for recovered patients with two jabs as a third dose.
Mid-december and we'll come on the heels of travel related to christmas. all of us in health care are bracing for what could be an onslaught of sick patients. implore everyone to take this seriously and do basic hygiene, wear a mask in crowded places, and most importantly vaccinate, your flu vaccine and your covid booster. >> i want to ask you more about that because there had been a number of questions about the w valent vaccines and boosters are. what are you explaining to people to drive home the message they need to get this latest booster? >> yeah. i know some people are frustrated becaus...
Only 11% of people have gotten their updated covid booster. that's just a fraction of the people eligible. the white house is launching a campaign to change that. >> my message and my final message, maybe the final message i give you from this podium, is that please, for your own safety, for that of your family, get your updated covid-19 shot as soon as you're eligible to protect yourself, your family, and your community. >> cnn's jeremy diamond is live at the white house, and cnn medical correspondent dr. tara narulla is with us now. jeremy, to you first. so walk us through the biden administ...
Million doses of that shot. only 35 million have been administered. that amounts to about 13% of all u.s. adults having gotten that updated bivalent shot. so today the white house announcing dr. ashish jha, what the white house's covid coordinator is calling a six-week sprint to try to get more americans to get boosted ahead of the rest of the holiday seasons. it will include a public education campaign with some paid advertising on digital and on tv around the world cup, $350 million to boost community health center vaccination efforts, $125 million in grants to support vaccination efforts ai...