
All Americans ages 5 and older are eligible for one if they've completed their primary vaccination series. Pfizer and Moderna's redesigned shots are bivalent, meaning they're tailored to the original Covid strain and omicron BA.4 and BA.5. Here's what you need to know about the protection the new boosters provide, and where side effects fit into the equation: The new booster appears to give you protection adults say they've already gotten one or intend to "as soon as possible," according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Sept. More Americans could follow: Roughly a third of U.S.
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Food and Drug Administration and the CDC before they finished clinical trials. But newly released data from Pfizer and BioNTech's ongoing clinical trial gives a first glimpse of how well its new shots work on humans, showing that the new boosters generated a strong immune response against omicron's BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants.Ībout 11.5 million Americans have rolled up their sleeves to get the booster since they were first sent out at the beginning of September, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new boosters gained approval from the U.S.


Yvonne Maldonado, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Stanford University's School of Medicine, tells CNBC Make It.

So focus on that benefit of the new vaccines," Dr. "Don't focus too much on side effects, because I really think that the main objective here is to get people to be protected.
