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    As COVID-19 spikes in California, booster shots could make all the difference

    LOS ANGELES — With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rising in Los Angeles County, officials are voicing new confidence in the effectiveness of the updated COVID-19 booster shot. New data has found that the updated COVID-19 vaccines offer “significant additional protection” against symptomatic infection in people who were previously vaccinated or boosted with the older formula. While the ...
    by Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money, Los Angeles Times Dec 04, 2022 5 minutes
    A pharmacist gives a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on Sept. 9, 2022, in Chicago.

    LOS ANGELES — With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rising in Los Angeles County, officials are voicing new confidence in the effectiveness of the updated COVID-19 booster shot.

    New data has found that the updated COVID-19 vaccines offer “significant additional protection” against symptomatic infection in people who were previously vaccinated or boosted with the older formula.

    While the efficacy of the shots varied depending on a person’s vaccine history, data published in a recent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found consistently boosted defense across all adult age groups.

    “Everybody was asking the question, ‘Where’s the clinical efficacy data?’ Now it has come out with the CDC [report],” Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s outgoing chief medical adviser for the pandemic, said at a briefing before Thanksgiving. “We know that it is effective.”

    For those ages 18 to 49 who had gone at least eight months since their last vaccine

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