(20 Sep 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 19 September 2023
1. Pfizer updated COVID-19 vaccine box
2. Pfizer updated COVID-19 vaccine bottle
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STORYLINE:
Most Americans should get an updated COVID-19 vaccine, health officials said.
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed the new shots for everyone 6 months and older and the agency’s director quickly signed off on the panel’s recommendation.
The severity of the COVID-19 pandemic has faded, but there are still thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths in the U.S. each week. Hospitalizations have been increasing since late summer, though the latest data indicate infections may be starting to level off, particularly in the South.
Still, experts worry that immunity from previous vaccinations and infections is fading in many people, and a new shot would save many lives.
Doctors hope enough people get vaccinated to help avert another “tripledemic” like last year when hospitals were overwhelmed with an early flu season, an onslaught of RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, and yet another winter coronavirus surge.
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