Booster Dose COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Dr. Céline Gounder Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News....
Why the CDC recommends everyone get the new COVID vaccine booster for fall 2023 The rollout of the shots will also mark three major shifts in the U.S. response to the virus: the end of government-bought vaccine supplies, a simplification of who is eligible to get shots and a significant...
The CDC recommends that if you are ages 5 years and up that you get one updated (bivalent) booster if it has been at least 2 months since your last COVID-19 vaccine dose. This last dose can be your final primary series dose or an original (monovalent) booster. If you have received ...
Concerns over waning immunity and SARS-CoV-2 variants have convinced some countries to deploy extra vaccine doses — but it’s not clear to scientists whether most people need them. By Ewen Callaway Twitter Facebook Email Britain is one of several countries looking to administer booster shots ...
A panel of advisers to the CDC had unanimously backed COVID-19 vaccine boosters earlier on Thursday. Still, health officials and public health experts said the booster rollout could be confusing. The panel struggled with trying to make the language of its recommendatio...
wait two months since the last symptomatic infection before getting a booster. Some protective COVID-virus-targeting T cells and antibody-producing B cells remain after infection ends, but they need time to readjust and reset their metabolism before they can respond optimally to a booster vacci...
BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhua) -- A clinical trial in China has shown that an inhalable COVID-19 booster vaccine is safe and effective in adults. Scientists led by Chen Wei with the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in China developed an aerosolized adenovirus type-5 vector-based COVID-19 vac...
Vaccine Brand Comparison Is there a difference in demand between the two main mRNA vaccine brands, Moderna and Pfizer? First, we assessed relative interest in the U.S. between the different types of boosters (“Pfizer booster” in blue, “Moderna booster” in red). It could be that increase...
Using the health belief model (HBM) as a guiding framework, this study examines COVID-19-related message fatigue among adults in the United States who have gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and the association between message fatigue and COVID-19 booster uptake and intentions....
Looking for the new COVID vaccine booster? Here's where to get the shot. Virtually all Americans ages 6 months and older are now recommended to get one dose of these updated shots from Moderna or Pfizer, regardless of what vaccines they have or have not received before. "Bye bye, booster...