A pharmacist prepares to administer COVID-19 vaccine booster shots during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on Sept. 9, 2022, in Chicago.
Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla says a fourth dose of the COVID vaccine is necessary to keep hospitalizations and symptoms down. He says the third dose was effective, but it doesn't last very long. Bourla says Pfizer is planning to submit data for a fourth vaccine. Israel, Chile and Germany have …
In the first real-world test of vaccine boosters specially designed to protect against the omicron variant, Israeli researchers have found that people 65 and over who got an updated jab were 81% less likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than those who did not.
The preliminary findings, posted to a website established by the British medical journal Lancet, have not yet been through the peer-review process. They are based on the medical records of more than 85,000 people 65 and over who got a dose of Pfizer and BioNTech's retooled mRNA booster and more than 537,000 others in the same age group who did not get the shot.
A pharmacist prepares to administer COVID-19 vaccine booster shots during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on Sept. 9, 2022, in Chicago.
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