Your Fall COVID-19 Booster Questions, Answered

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved last week the use of reformulated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech for people ages 12 years and older and from Moderna for those 18 and older. The boosters are bivalent, meaning that they’re designed to protect against both the original virus strain as well as the more transmissible and immune-evading Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5. In a statement Saturday, the California Department of Public Health said that the state is preparing to offer doses “as supplies arrive within the next few days.” We’ll talk about the new booster, explore the science of immune response and take your questions. Guests: Dr. Grace Lee, associate chief medical officer for practice innovation and pediatric infectious diseases physician, Stanford Children’s Health; member, U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP); member, COVID-19 Vaccines Workgroup Mehul Suthar, associate professor of pediatrics and member of the Vaccine Center, Emory University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.1	Coming up on forum, we talk about the new COVID vaccine.
1:22.1	California health officials say doses are coming in this week.
1:25.3	After the CDC approved the redesigned booster, saying it will do two things,
1:29.3	help restore our COVID defenses that have waned over time, and protect against the newer,
1:34.6	more infectious Omacron variants. We'll talk about who's eligible for the booster and when,
1:40.1	and get into the science of how this new combination vaccine is supposed to work.
1:46.0	Join us with your questions after this news.
1:49.0	Welcome to Forum.
2:03.6	I'm Mina Kim.
2:04.6	Supplies of the redesigned and recently CDC-approved COVID boosters are coming into California this week.
2:11.6	The new versions from Pfizer and Moderna are designed to protect against both the original virus strain and the
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