CDC recommends spring Covid booster for older adults
CDC advisers recommended a spring Covid booster for older adults and people at risk of severe complications. The CDC must sign off on the booster before it is available.
People at higher risk for the most severe complications of Covid — primarily those ages 65 and older — should get a booster shot this spring, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.
The CDC's recommendation came hours after the agency's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted in support of the extra dose.
Another round of the vaccine given within the next few months would offer the best protection possible, the advisers said, ahead of another likely rise in illness this summer.
Over the past four years, there’s tended to be both a winter and a summer wave of Covid, with cases peaking in January and August, respectively, according to the CDC.
For that reason, advisers to the CDC said that the approach to Covid vaccination is still different from the strategy used for the flu, which typically only peaks during the winter.
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