(CNN)US health officials are urgently working on a plan to allow second Covid-19 boosters for all adults, a senior White House official confirmed to CNN on Monday. The US Food and Drug Administration is making it a high priority the official said. Second boosters have been authorized for adults 50 and older, as well as some people with weakened immune systems, since late March. But younger adults are eligible for only one booster shot, which was authorized in November. Federal agencies are looking to move quickly on authorizing a second booster for all adults, the source said.
Some experts are concerned that younger adults’ immunity may be waning as Covid-19 cases rise with the dominance of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant. Reinfections are more likely with BA.5 than with any previous variants because of immune escape features, Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, said on CNNI Monday.
Turns out when you have a vaccine only approach to a disease, keeping people vaccinated is important! Who could have predicted this?
Yeah, I feel like the first summer, at least around me, cases got super low and it seemed like we might actually get over it, then after the hell that was delta the vaccines came out and last summer cases got super low again, I even got comfortable without my mask in certain outdoor spaces. Then omicron hit and this shit keeps evolving, getting more contagious, yet people are at an absolute low with taking precautions, they won’t roll out new boosters, testing has decreased. I clung to what little hope there was for the past two summers, but this is the first summer where there’s really nothing to give me hope and yeah I feel worse than ever
