People 65 and older should get a Covid spring booster shot --US CDC Advisory panel

CDC advisory panel says people 65 and older should get a Covid spring booster shot An expert panel advising the CDC on vaccines on Wednesday recommended that people 65 and older should get an additional Covid-19 vaccine shot this spring. Helen Branswell STAT

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The recommendation was approved by CDC Director Mandy Cohen, allowing the United States to join Canada and the United Kingdom in offering a spring booster this year to people at high risk of severe disease if they contract Covid.

This will mark the third year in a row that spring boosters will be offered, a recognition of the fact that transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues at substantial levels year round at this point. Influenza and RSV transmission bottoms out in the late spring and summer, but that is not currently the case with Covid.

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