Biden administration plans to offer updated Covid-19 booster shots in September. The new vaccines will be reformulated to perform better against the now dominant omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5.
The Biden administration plans to offer updated Covid booster shots in September, an administration official confirmed to NBC News on Friday.
On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense announced an agreement to purchase 66 million doses of Moderna’s bivalent Covid vaccine booster. Once those bivalent vaccine boosters are authorized by the FDA and the CDC, the first deliveries by both manufacturers will be received in the early fall, Health and Human Services said in a news release.
Health and Human Services said that both the Moderna and the Pfizer agreements include options to provide 300 million doses from each company, for a total of 600 million doses, “but these options can only be exercised with additional funding from Congress.”
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