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The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) supports the timely and complete immunization of all children and adults in its updated NAPNAP Position Statement on Immunizations.
Today, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) recommendations for use of updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech for people ages 12 years and older and from Moderna for people ages 18 years and older.
To better help fight the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an Emergency Use Authorization for bivalent COVID-19 vaccine for booster doses.
The Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent vaccine is authorized for use in people ages 12 years and older, the Moderna Bivalent vaccine for people 18+.
Bivalent COVID-19 boosters are becoming available among some providers in Missouri beginning as early as today with additional providers adding these boosters to their inventory next week.