{"id":5286,"date":"2023-11-21T18:42:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T00:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2023-11-21T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T00:42:43","slug":"what-are-the-new-covid-booster-vaccines-can-i-get-one-do-they-work-are-they-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/21\/what-are-the-new-covid-booster-vaccines-can-i-get-one-do-they-work-are-they-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the new COVID booster vaccines? Can I get one? Do they work? Are they\u00a0safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-are-the-new-covid-booster-vaccines-can-i-get-one-do-they-work-are-they-safe-217804\">The Conversation<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the COVID virus continues to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36680207\/\">evolve<\/a>, so does our vaccine response. From&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/ministers\/the-hon-mark-butler-mp\/media\/new-covid-19-vaccines-available-to-target-current-variants?language=en\">December 11<\/a>, Australians will have access to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/news\/atagi-recommendations-on-use-of-the-moderna-and-pfizer-monovalent-omicron-xbb15-covid-19-vaccines?language=en\">new vaccines<\/a>&nbsp;that offer better protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These \u201cmonovalent\u201d booster vaccines are expected to be a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cdc-greenlights-two-updated-covid-19-vaccines-but-how-will-they-fare-against-the-latest-variants-5-questions-answered-213341\">better match<\/a>&nbsp;for currently circulating strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pfizer\u2019s monovalent vaccine will be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/ministers\/the-hon-mark-butler-mp\/media\/new-covid-19-vaccines-available-to-target-current-variants?language=en\">available<\/a>&nbsp;to eligible people aged five years and older. The Moderna monovalent vaccine can be used for those aged 12 years and older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who is eligible for these new boosters? How do they differ from earlier ones? Do they work? Are they safe? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who\u2019s eligible for the new boosters?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal government has accepted the Australian Technical Advisory Group (ATAGI) recommendation to use the new vaccines, after Australia\u2019s regulator&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tga.gov.au\/products\/covid-19\/covid-19-vaccines\/covid-19-vaccines-regulatory-status\">approved their use last month<\/a>. However, vaccine eligibility has remained the same since September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ATAGI&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/news\/atagi-recommendations-on-use-of-the-moderna-and-pfizer-monovalent-omicron-xbb15-covid-19-vaccines?language=en\">recommends<\/a>&nbsp;Australians aged over 75 get vaccinated if it has been six months or more since their last dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People aged 65 to 74 are recommended to have a 2023 booster if they haven\u2019t already had one.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"aTJ  yPEsX kqE\"><!-- aTJ  yPEsX kqE --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conversation As the COVID virus continues to&nbsp;evolve, so does our vaccine response. From&nbsp;December 11, Australians will have access to&nbsp;new vaccines&nbsp;that offer better protection. These \u201cmonovalent\u201d booster vaccines are expected to be a&nbsp;better match&nbsp;for currently circulating strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. Pfizer\u2019s monovalent vaccine will be&nbsp;available&nbsp;to eligible people aged five years and [&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":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/5286","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=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5287,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}