CDC Likely To Recommend Yearly COVID Booster Shot
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Americans are likely to be told they should be getting a COVID booster shot every year. Dr. Manday Cohen, the new director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the CDC is likely to come out with new guidance saying Americans should get a booster shot every year.
She said, “We’re just on the precipice of that, so I don’t want to get ahead of where our scientists are here and doing that evaluation work, but yes we anticipate that COVID will become similar to flu shots, where it is going to be you get your annual flu shot, and you get your annual COVID shot.”
The new director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that her agency would likely come out with guidance in the fall that Americans should get an annual COVID-19 booster shot.
“We’re just on the precipice of that, so I don’t want to get ahead of where our scientists are here and doing that evaluation work, but yes we anticipate that COVID will become similar to flu shots, where it is going to be you get your annual flu shot, and you get your annual COVID shot,” Dr. Mandy Cohen told Spectrum News.
“We’re not quite there yet, but stay tuned,” she added. “I think within the next couple of weeks, month we’re going to hear more from our experts on COVID shots.”
Spectrum News said that the agency is finalizing the recommendation and is expected to announce it in early September.
The CDC has also said that another wave of COVID has started in the United States.
Dr. Brendan Jackson said, “After roughly six, seven months of steady declines, things are starting to tick back up again.”
Yet another summer COVID-19 wave may have started in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“After roughly six, seven months of steady declines, things are starting to tick back up again,” Dr. Brendan Jackson, the CDC’s COVID-19 incident manager, tells NPR.
The amount of coronavirus being detected in wastewater, the percentage of people testing positive for the virus and the number of people seeking care for COVID-19 at emergency rooms all started increasing in early July, Jackson says.
“We’ve seen the early indicators go up for the past several weeks, and just this week for the first time in a long time we’ve seen hospitalizations tick up as well,” Jackson says. “This could be the start of a late summer wave.”
Everyone knew this was coming.
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