As a summer season surge of COVID-19 outbreaks is underway, new vaccines for the virus have been launched.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted new COVID-19 vaccines for the 2024-2025 season for folks ages 6 months and older. These up to date vaccines are designed to raised defend towards not too long ago circulating variants, serving to to stop severe sickness and hospitalization.
"It appears that this virus is going to continue to change as immunity in the population wanes, either after vaccination or prior infection. New strains of this virus will cause outbreaks at different times of the year," says Dr. Matthew Binnicker, director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic.
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