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FDA Approves New Covid Vaccines Amid Summer Surge
The updated vaccines target the currently circulating KP.2 variant.
Amidst a summer surge of Covid-19 infections, the US Food and Drug Administration just approved updated mRNA vaccines that more closely target the currently circulating variants of the coronavirus. Elizabeth Hudson, regional chief of infectious disease at Kaiser Permanente Southern California says SARS-CoV-2 is changing faster than the flu virus, making it tricky to predict which variants will be dominant by the time the vaccine comes out. “Most of the time, we recommend getting both the Covid and the flu vaccines more towards late September, October, to try to carry people through the winter months,” says Rosha McCoy, a pediatrician and senior director of healthcare affairs at the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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