New COVID-19 boosters could contain bits of the omicron variant
It’s not yet clear if the boosters will be widely available
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An advisory committee to the U.S. FDA voted to recommend that COVID-19 vaccines be updated for the first time to include the spike protein of the omicron variant. It’s still unclear who will be getting the updated shots this fall.
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