Now and Later: Administration Struggles To Cement COVID Booster Strategy Amid Evolving Pandemic
Executive Summary
US FDA was trying to focus people on a one-booster-per year, updated fall COVID vaccine campaign to address what they perceive as the public’s inoculation exhaustion, but as BA.5 seems to be sending the US into another surge the White House is pushing a summer booster campaign.
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