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COVID-19 vaccine insights: The news beyond the headlines

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At approximately that time, application to the FDA for a fourth shot (or a second booster) by Pfizer-BioNTech had been approved for adults > 50 years of age, at > 4 months after their previous vaccination.57 In view of warning signs from wastewater surveillance, priorities for vaccination should be to:

  • increase uptake in the hesitant
  • get boosters to the eligible
  • prepare to tackle either seasonal or sporadic recurrence of COVID-19—whichever scenario the future brings.

As an example of how these priorities have been put into action, in September 2022, the FDA approved, and the CDC recommended, new bivalent boosters for everyone ≥ 12 years of age (Pfizer-BioNTech) or for all those ≥ 18 years of age (Moderna), to be administered ≥ 2 months after receipt of their most recent booster or primary series.

a www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/index.html

b Visit www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/interim-considerations-us.html for more guidance on COVID-19 vaccination for immunocompromised patients.

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John L. Kiley, MD, 3551 Roger Brooke Drive, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234; john.l.kiley.mil@health.mil

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