{"id":1611948,"date":"2022-08-18T05:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611948"},"modified":"2022-08-18T05:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T09:49:11","slug":"updated-covid-19-booster-shots-for-over-12s-expected-within-few-weeks-white-house-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/updated-covid-19-booster-shots-for-over-12s-expected-within-few-weeks-white-house-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated COVID-19 Booster Shots for Over-12s Expected Within Few Weeks: White House Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fupdated-covid-19-booster-shots-for-over-12s-expected-within-few-weeks-white-house-official%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The newly-updated COVID-19 booster shots targeting the latest Omicron variants of COVID-19 will be available to Americans over the age of 12 in the coming weeks,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a> COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it\u2019s going to be available and every American over the age of 12 will be eligible for it,\u201d Jha told NBC News, adding that the booster jab will be available\u00a0to teens and adults \u201cin a few short weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The availability of the newly-updated shots will depend on whether they are cleared for authorization as expected by the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Jha said earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>If authorized, the booster jabs could be available by the start of September at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to know more about this in the upcoming weeks and these vaccines will become available by early- to mid-September,\u201d Jha said at an event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, ABC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the big picture, bottom line, is these are substantial upgrades in our vaccines,\u201d Jha added. \u201cAnd those vaccines are coming very, very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. drug regulators recommended in June that vaccine makers reformulate their shots to\u00a0include components of BA.5 and BA.4, another Omicron subvariant.<\/p>\n<p> Newly-Updated Boosters Will \u2018Work Much Better\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The newly-formulated booster shots target both BA.4 and BA.5, as well as the original strain of the virus. Presently,\u00a0BA.4 and BA.5 appear to be the most vaccine-evasive strains of the virus and also largely bypass\u00a0immunity from a previous infection.<\/p>\n<p>As of Aug. 18,\u00a0BA.5 cases account for 88.8 percent of all COVID-19\u00a0cases\u00a0in the United States, followed by BA.4 (5.3 percent) and a newer version of\u00a0BA.4 known as BA4.6 (5.1 percent),\u00a0according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As cases continue to rise, the Biden administration has signed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly-updated COVID-19 booster shots targeting the latest Omicron variants of COVID-19 will be available to Americans over the age of 12 in the coming weeks,\u00a0White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said on Wednesday. \u201cI believe it\u2019s going to be available and every American over the age of 12 will be eligible for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}