Children ages 5 to 11 are now eligible to receive a COVID-19 booster, FDA says
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha has urged everyone to get a bivalent booster shot by Oct. 31, ahead of the holidays and an expected winter surge in cases."Don't wait," Jha said in a White House briefing Tuesday."Get your new flu shot and get your new COVID shot today. If Americans did that, we could save hundreds of lives each day this winter."
The new shot is considered a"bivalent" vaccine, because it targets both the original virus and the variants that have been most common since early in the summer.seen in the United States, a figure that has fallen in recent weeks. BA.4.6 is now the second-most common variant after BA.5 and BA.7 is gaining ground, as well. It's not clear whether vaccines and treatments will respond any differently to those newer variants.
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna boosters are considered equivalent, with no proven difference in terms of effectiveness or side effects for either one or for mixing vaccines. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is available for children as young as 5, while Moderna's is only available for kids as young as 6.
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