{"id":2827,"date":"2023-03-14T12:44:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2023-03-14T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:44:58","slug":"the-covid-booster-state-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/03\/14\/the-covid-booster-state-of-play\/","title":{"rendered":"The COVID booster state of play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/washington-dc\/2023\/03\/13\/booster-covid-do-you-need\">Axios<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been six months since many of us got the bivalent COVID booster, which means you may be wondering: Is it time for a new one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/stay-up-to-date.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nope, not yet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Catch up quick:<\/strong>&nbsp;Federal officials are considering a plan to do yearly one-dose boosters, similar to annual flu shots in the fall, with higher-risk groups eligible for at least two doses a year,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/26\/fda-panel-annual-covid-vaccine\">Axios\u2019 Oriana Gonz\u00e1lez reports<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>That means we might be looking at boosters sometime later this year, with hopes that they will be available in the fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yes, but:&nbsp;<\/strong>There isn&#8217;t any concrete strategy yet for bivalent booster shots. The FDA has proposed a committee meeting in June to plan out what strains a booster might target,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/the-fda-is-proposing-a-new-covid-vaccination-strategy-heres-what-you-need-to-know-231542238.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFzc2xpdmUuY29tL2Nvcm9uYXZpcnVzLzIwMjMvMDMvd2lsbC13ZS1uZWVkLXRvLWdldC1hbm90aGVyLWJpdmFsZW50LWNvdmlkLWJvb3N0ZXItc29vbi1oZWFsdGgtZXhwZXJ0cy1hbnN3ZXIuaHRtbA&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD3aUvnRDfm0HvV6a6NrQqvo4I6S6-4ENhJeau--FrVIXy5K8f1YPHWVyYcj5jmmIsJD8sQ6VBB1NmCA1o5T-l7TVXxYFYexTuTcvjnWnskUgsC5vmWLUap1SWiKMDGnTBsDGcjWyFNrjvFDMvvqkDl-jGLetxlSoJk6Ehx_5reZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yahoo News reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Be smart:&nbsp;<\/strong>The District is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dchealth.dc.gov\/release\/dc-health-announces-covid-centers-will-close-march-31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shuttering<\/a>&nbsp;its COVID Centers soon. While just under half who received their initial vaccine doses have obtained a bivalent booster according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.dc.gov\/data\/vaccination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DC Health data<\/a>&nbsp;from mid-February, those who haven\u2019t can visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.dc.gov\/covidcenters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a COVID Center&nbsp;<\/a>before they close on March 31.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios It\u2019s been six months since many of us got the bivalent COVID booster, which means you may be wondering: Is it time for a new one? Catch up quick:&nbsp;Federal officials are considering a plan to do yearly one-dose boosters, similar to annual flu shots in the fall, with higher-risk groups eligible for at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}