CDC advisers consider what's next for Covid-19 boosters

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Thu, 2022-04-21 15:48 — mike kraft

CDC advisers mull what's next for Covid-19 boosters Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to mull over what the future of Covid-19 booster shots might look like -- and they acknowledge that entirely different vaccine formulations could be needed. Jacqueline Howard, CNN CNN

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At their meeting Wednesday, the members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices discussed their next steps around recommending additional booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines for the general public.

Currently, additional booster doses are recommended only for certain people with weakened immune systems and adults 50 and older.

Policy around future doses require continued evaluation of Covid-19 epidemiology and vaccine effectiveness, including the impact of both time and variants, and the ability of doses to improve this protection," the CDC's Dr. Sara Oliver, an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Division of Viral Diseases, said at the meeting.

Before recommending future doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Oliver said, the committee members would need to assess the nation's recent case counts, hospitalization rates, vaccine effectiveness -- including whether it's waning over time -- and the impacts of circulating coronavirus variants. ...

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