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    Second COVID-19 booster shot does little to stop omicron, study finds

    by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Mar 16, 2022 3 minutes
    An Israeli medic administers a third jab of the COVID vaccine to a member of medical teams, at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, on Aug. 15, 2021.

    Israeli health care workers who were boosted with a fourth shot of COVID-19 vaccine at the height of the omicron wave were only marginally more protected against reinfection than their peers who had received three jabs of vaccine, researchers reported Wednesday.

    Compared with getting two initial doses and one booster shot of Pfizer and BioNTech's Comirnaty vaccine, adding a second booster shot reduced the rate of coronavirus infection by just 30%.

    The fourth dose was somewhat more effective at preventing COVID-19 symptoms, according to a published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The health care workers who got

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