The president's outgoing chief medical adviser pointed to new CDC data suggesting the updated boosters will increase protection against infection.
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 22: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus during the White House press briefing on Tuesday, November 22, 2022In his final briefing as President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr.
"We're hoping that a combination of people who have been infected and boosted and vaccinated, or people who have been vaccinated and boosted and uninfected, that there's enough community protection that we're not going to see a repeat of what we saw last year at this time," said Fauci."They had increasing cases, but they did not have a concomitant major increase in hospitalizations," Fauci said.
In adults under 50 years old who received their last shot at least eight months ago, those with an updated booster saw a relative vaccine effectiveness of 56%. After the same interval in seniors, the boosters were 43% effective.
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