{"id":1051041,"date":"2022-09-07T07:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1051041"},"modified":"2022-09-07T07:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:05:52","slug":"with-ba-5-boosters-biden-officials-herald-the-start-of-annual-covid-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1051041","title":{"rendered":"With BA.5 boosters, Biden officials herald the start of annual COVID shots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Syringes filled with COVID-19 vaccine sit on a table at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on April 06, 2022 in San Rafael, California. (credit: Getty | Justin Sullivan<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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The updated COVID-19 boosters targeting the BA.4\/5 subvariants now rolling out nationwide are meant to head off a surge of the disease this fall and winter\u2014but they are also meant to signal a shift in the nation’s pandemic response, which is moving out of an emergency phase to a place with routine, potentially annual vaccinations against a virus that is clearly not going away.<\/p>\n

In a White House press briefing Tuesday, top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci along with other Biden administration officials, repeatedly pushed the idea that this new phase will see COVID-19 vaccinations follow the footsteps of seasonal flu vaccines.<\/p>\n

“It is becoming increasingly clear that\u2014looking forward with the COVID-19 pandemic, in the absence of a dramatically different variant\u2014we likely are moving towards a path with a vaccination cadence similar to that of the annual influenza vaccine, with annual, updated COVID-19 shots matched to the currently circulating strains for most of the population,” Fauci said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – With BA.5 boosters, Biden officials herald the start of annual COVID shots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enlarge \/ Syringes filled with COVID-19 vaccine sit on a table at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on April 06, 2022 in San Rafael, California. (credit: Getty | Justin Sullivan) The updated COVID-19 boosters targeting the BA.4\/5 subvariants now rolling out … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1051042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1051041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}