The Biden administration is pushing another round of Covid boosters. Who’s listening?
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are starting to push new, variant-targeting vaccines that they say will curb a winter coronavirus wave and protect America’s most medically vulnerable people. The question is whether Americans feel any urgency to get them.
The updated vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer and BioNTech, authorized Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration, are tailored to fighting back the dominant BA.4 and BA.5 strains. Biden officials hope the fresh doses can push down coronavirus case rates that have plateaued at roughly 400 deaths and more than 5,000 hospitalizations a day — and then stave off an all-but-assured case surge in the coming months.
