Is pivoting to an annual COVID-19 shot a smart move?
The FDA, which proposed the change on Monday, says an annual shot vs. periodic boosters could simplify the process to ensure more people stay vaccinated and protected against severe COVID-19 infection. If accepted, the vaccine formula would be decided each June and Americans could start getting their annual COVID-19 shot in the fall, like your yearly flu shot.may need more than one dose of the annual COVID-19 shot.
"It would be easier [for primary care doctors and other health care providers] to encourage our patients to get one set of annual shots, rather than to count the number of boosters or have two separate shots that people have to obtain," she says. Carlos del Rio, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta and president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, agrees.
Regarding seasonality, she says,"what we do know is that in closed rooms in the U.S. as well as in Europe, we can have more crowding. And if you're more indoors or outdoors, that definitely makes a big difference."To decide which variants an annual COVID-19 shot will attack, one possibility could be for the FDA to use the same process used for the flu vaccine, Wen says.strains will be dominant," she says.
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