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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

New Booster Coming Soon

According to the New York Times, a new booster shot will be available soon:

...Only people who have received at least two shots will be eligible for the updated booster, and only those who have had two months or more after finishing their initial two-shot series or getting one of the previous boosters. The updated shot will replace the existing one and could be available in a few days...

The Biden administration is casting the so-called bivalent shots as a standard upgrade that Americans should embrace ahead of potential surges in cases in the winter, like the flu shot, which is reconfigured every year to target more current versions of the influenza virus...

Full story at: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/us/politics/covid-booster-shots-variants.html.

Exactly what UCLA will do in terms of requiring the booster shot remains to be seen. Presumably, there is interest in preventing what happened last winter quarter to repeat, i.e., pushing the first four weeks online.

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https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/booster.mp3.

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