Vaccines for a fall immunization drive against COVID-19 just got the green light from the Food and Drug Administration. The agency says the vaccines can protect people, as hospitalizations tick up.
"The data so far suggest that the new COVID vaccines should be really quite effective against even the new emerging variants that we have seen come up in the last weeks," Dr., the dean of the Brown School of Public Health who served as the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator."So I'm actually quite optimistic this new vaccine is going to be protective."
Children younger than 5 may be eligible for multiple doses of this season's vaccine if they had not previously finished a three-dose series with earlier COVID-19 vaccines.Become a KPBS sponsorA panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meets Tuesday to make recommendations on the rollout of the vaccines.
"I understand that you know it's been a long pandemic and people just want to move on. The best way to move on is just to get your COVID shot and know that's going to provide a good amount of protection," Jha says.Others argue the focus should be on those at high risk because most people are still well protect against severe disease from previous vaccinations and infections., an immunologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
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