The new boosters target the coronavirus subvariants that currently most dominant.
Medical assistant Juanita Hall administers a booster injection to Dave Jordan at Harlan High School in Chicago, May 11, 2022.of the updated COVID-19 booster vaccines that target omicron subvariants, and could begin giving shots as soon as Tuesday. Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady briefed reporters Thursday morning on why Chicagoans should get their shot and who is likely eligible.
About 1.8 million Chicagoans should be eligible, since about 77% of Chicagoans over 12 have received their primary series, Arwady said.In previous vaccination rounds, officials sometimes mandated only certain groups — like frontline healthcare workers and those with critical illnesses — be first in line. Arwady says the city is not expecting the federal government to mandate priority groups.
Like the most recent boosters, this round should protect most people who receive it against hospitalization and death from COVID-19. Arwady is “also hopeful that it will have significant improvement against some of these breakthrough infections as well” and reduce the ability for the virus to mutate into a different variant.For most people, no. “With this new authorization, the monovalent — meaning the old version — not authorized anymore as booster doses,” Arwady said.
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