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New COVID booster questions, answered

Nicholas Capote looks at the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose at Tufts Medical Center in Boston in December 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Nicholas Capote looks at the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose at Tufts Medical Center in Boston in December 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

The new COVID-19 booster shot is now available. It targets both the original strain of COVID and the newer omicron sub-variants that have been causing the majority of recent infections in the United States.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks to Sarah Owermohle, a Washington correspondent for our partners at STAT, the health and medicine publication.

 

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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