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    CDC advisers endorse booster shots that target omicron for Americans 12 and up

    by Corinne Purtill and Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Sep 01, 2022 4 minutes
    Safeway pharmacist Ashley McGee fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 booster vaccination at a clinic on Oct. 1, 2021, in San Rafael, California.

    The United States should replace most of its COVID-19 booster shots with updated versions that target the dominant omicron strains, an influential group of vaccine experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

    In a vote of 13-1, the panel recommended that Americans ages 12 and up who have gone at least two months since their last shot roll up their sleeves for the reformulated boosters, which are engineered to combat the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants along with the original coronavirus that arrived in the U.S. in early 2020.

    If CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky agrees with the Advisory Committee on

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