New Covid vaccines are coming to the U.S. this fall, but uptake may be low — Here’s why
New Covid vaccines are coming to the U.S. this fall, but uptake may be low — Here’s why
Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are slated to deliver new single-strain Covid shots targeting the omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 in September.
Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are slated to deliver new single-strain Covid shots targeting the omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 in September.
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IMO, if they're going to make a push for it to be an annual thing, it would be a good idea if the shot were available before school starts in the fall.
They want you to be the most protected during winter.
This is true, but we also know that kids are a disease vector that especially kicks in after every break, and that adults seem to be more vulnerable than kids.
Messaging on this would suck, but I'd love to see split vaccinations, with kids getting vaccinated in late August. That way, they're less likely to vector the disease and we might tamp down the winter surge, and their 'prime' resistance would run through Christmas. And adults getting vaccinated at the end of October, with their 'prime' resistance running from just before Thanksgiving through the end of the winter heating season.
That sounds like a really cool thing to try and model and then try all sorts of variations on.
Probably a masters thesis or something in there if someone wanted to do it.
Given that all covid vaccines have lost most of their efficacy in just a few months, once a year doesn't seem like enough.