Here's what you should know about COVID-19 and updated boosters to prepare for a possible fall or winter surge.
— infants are probably not getting protective antibodies against COVID through breast milk. And because infants have small airways and weaker coughs, they're more likely to have trouble breathing with any respiratory infection, even one less deadly than COVID.It depends on the targets set by public health officials, whether COVID becomes a seasonal virus like the flu, and how much the virus continues to mutate and evade humanity's immune defenses.
Influenza is a seasonal virus causing infections and disease generally in the winter, but scientists don't know whether COVID will settle into a similar, predictable pattern. In the first three years of the pandemic, the United States has experienced waves of infection in summer. But if the COVID virus were to become a wintertime virus, public health officials might recommend yearly boosters.
And the more the virus mutates, the more often public health officials may recommend boosting to overcome a new variant's immune evasion. Unfortunately, this year's
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