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Coronavirus won't go away: White House recommends Americans get vaccinated against COVID-19 every year

Americans are encouraged to get vaccinated against COVID-19 every year, federal health officials said, signaling that the country will live with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future. Writes about it CBS News.

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“This week marks a major shift in our fight against the coronavirus,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, who leads the White House COVID-19 Response Team. “We continue to reduce the number of serious illnesses and deaths and protect Americans as we head into the fall and winter. This shows our ability to make updated COVID-19 vaccines a more routine part of our lives.”

While the announcement did not come as a surprise, it is an important moment as the government continues to de-escalate its response to the pandemic.

Jha said the newly authorized COVID-19 upgrade boosters will be free for anyone who qualifies and wants them, but future vaccines and treatments may not be free as funding for the pandemic response dwindles and the government begins to transfer therapeutics. to the commercial market.

Vaccine experts say the move to annual shots signals that COVID-19 is not going away.

“Our great-great-grandchildren will most likely be vaccinated against COVID-19,” said Dr. Gregory Poland, who leads the vaccine research team at the Mayo Clinic. “So will you and I when we get a flu vaccine this fall that has one component derived from the 1918 pandemic influenza virus, and 100+ years later we are still immunized against it.”

Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, tweeted that now is a good time to switch to annual boosters if we can answer some key questions, like how well updated vaccines work. ?

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“What will we add to vaccinations next year? Hotez wrote. “What global surveillance mechanisms need to be put in place to identify early strains?”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, while expecting this fall to be the start of annual COVID-19 shots for those with weakened immune systems, more frequent protection may be needed.

“In the absence of a radically different option, we are likely on a path with a vaccination frequency similar to the annual influenza vaccine, with annual updated COVID-19 vaccinations corresponding to currently circulating strains for the majority of the population,” he suggested.

Fauci said the latest boosters should continue to protect Americans as the coronavirus slowly shifts away from the currently circulating BA.4 and BA.5 sub-options.

He acknowledged that the annual vaccination plan may need to be revised if the coronavirus makes a significant evolutionary leap, as it did when the omicron strain appeared.

“There is nothing we can do about it except to know that we have vaccine platforms that will allow us to move quickly to solve such a problem,” Fauci said.

But he stressed that barring any major changes in the virus, boosters should continue to protect and should be updated annually.

"The biggest problem with vaccines today is that people don't get vaccinated," said Dr. Robert Wachter, head of the UC San Francisco School of Medicine.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only about 1 in 3 Americans ages 5 and older have received a booster shot.

In planning the announcement, the White House and the CDC hoped to reach more people by removing some of the uncertainty about when they might need their next shots, Wachter said.

The overall goal, he stressed, was to make boosters more commonplace by presenting them as something you do every year, like flu shots.

“I think this is a really smart way to rebrand and rethink,” Wachter said.

At the briefing, Dr. Jah urged Americans aged 12 and over to take advantage of the upgraded boosters, highlighting that for the first time, vaccines matching the currently circulating options were available in the country.

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He said people can get flu shots at the same time they get COVID-19 vaccines.

"I really believe that's why God gave us two hands, one for the flu shot and one for the COVID-19 shot," Jha joked.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said "the benefits of updated COVID-19 vaccines are clear."

BA.5 and BA.4 are the dominant circulating variants of COVID-19, she said. While hospital admissions are down 14% from last week, there are more deaths now than in the spring.

“The seven-day average daily death rate is still too high at around 375 per day, well above the 200 or so deaths per day we saw this spring and, in my opinion, too high for a vaccine-preventable disease. ", Walensky stated.

Fauci said his message to Americans is "simple: Get the updated COVID-19 vaccine as soon as you can to protect yourself, your family, and your community from COVID-19 this fall and winter."

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