The Biden administration plans to urge citizens to get booster shots for the COVID XBB.1.5 subvariant this autumn to counter a new wave.
Booster shots
The WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are tracking a new, highly mutated BA.2.86 COVID variant.
China is giving COVID-19 booster vaccines using technologies different from the initial injections, in an effort to improve immunisation strategies amid concerns that its most-used jabs appeared to be weaker against variants such as Omicron. Boosting population immunity could be crucial to preparing China to eventually reopen its borders and pivot from its “dynamic zero” […]