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    CDC recommends new booster shots to fight omicron

    CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has signed off on updated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines that target the original virus and the omicron subvariants.
    by Jane Greenhalgh Sep 01, 2022 2 minutes
    Vials of the reformulated Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster move through production at a plant in Kalamazoo, Mich.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed the first updated COVID-19 booster shots.

    The decision came just hours after advisers to the CDC voted to recommend reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. The vote was 13 in favor and one no vote.

    "The updated COVID-19 boosters are formulated to better protect against the most recently circulating COVID-19 variant," Walensky

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