The CDC has signed off on new omicron specific vaccines

Now that the CDC has signed off on new omicron specific vaccines, it’s probably time to get ready for your yearly Covid shots to go along with the flu shots you should also be getting every year, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci. Now that the technology is in place, we can expect Covid shots to be geared annually towards protecting against the most predominant circulating variants. 

Vaccines have “caught up with the virus” for the first time since December 2020, according to Ashish Jah, White House coronavirus coordinator. Experts believe that updated boosters will provide more protection than the initial vaccine. However, other experts are skeptical, saying that variant-specific boosters aren’t the best path. Those scientists think that the best route is a a universal Covid vaccine. No such shot like that exists yet, but there’s several being developed right now.