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CDC DATA REVEAL VERY FEW ELIGIBLE AMERICANS HAVE GOTTEN NEW COVID-19 BOOSTER

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About 4.4 million Americans have received an updated COVID-19 vaccine booster
dose since the start of September, according to data recently released by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That figure represents
approximtely 2 percent of the people who are currently eligible to receive the
new booster doses.

The federal health agency started recommending the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine
booster doses made by Pfizer and Moderna several weeks ago. They’re designed to
combat Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5.

Because the CDC data don’t include individuals who received the updated COVID-19
boosters in Idaho and Texas, the White House told The Associated Press that it
believes that about 5 million doses of the new vaccine boosters have been
administered.

When the recommendation was issued on Sept. 1, the American Health Association
estimated that more than 200 million Americans are eligible for the bivalent
COVID-19 vaccine boosters.

The CDC recommendation is for Pfizer’s vaccine booster for Americans aged 12
years and older and for Moderna’s vaccine booster for U.S. adults. People are
advised to get the updated vaccine boosters as soon as two months after their
most recent shot, down from five months.

The old boosters will no longer be available. The primary series of the vaccines
will remain the same, or based on the original Wuhan COVID-19 strain. The
updated boosters contain components of the spike protein from the BA.4 and BA.5
Omicron subvariants. BA.5 is the dominant strain in the United States at
present.

In signing off on the new vaccine boosters on Sept. 1, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle
Walensky recommended the vaccine boosters, saying that they’re “formulated to
better protect against the most recently circulating COVID-19 variant.”

“They can help restore protection that has waned since previous vaccination and
were designed to provide broader protection against newer variants,” her
statement read. “This recommendation followed a comprehensive scientific
evaluation and robust scientific discussion. If you are eligible, there is no
bad time to get your COVID-19 booster and I strongly encourage you to receive
it.”

But during a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices several
weeks ago, its members noted a lack of human data for the bivalent boosters.

“I really do struggle with a vaccine that has no clinical data that has been
reported for humans,” Dr. Oliver Brooks, one of the advisory committee members,
said in the meeting.

Data that were presented by Pfizer and Moderna dealt with a human trial that
tested a different formulation, a bivalent with components of the original virus
strain and the BA.1 strain.

Dr. Melinda Wharton, the panel’s executive secretary and a CDC official, urged
members to think about how influenza vaccines are updated each year without
clinical data, and other members said they appreciated the comparison.

Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.

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