Those advised to get a spring booster include individuals older than 80, seniors in long-term care homes, Indigenous people older than 70 and people 18 and older who are immuno-compromised.
COVID-19 spring booster shots will begin in April for adults at high risk of serious illness or death from the virus, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Friday.
Older individuals have more waning protection, Henry said, noting there is still moderate risk of contracting COVID. Henry said the province’s public health officials are seeing a relatively high level of COVID circulation right now, and are closely watching the data locally and globally in order to make recommendations heading into the fall.
The bivalent vaccine offered last year — a combination of the original strain and the Omicron strain — is proving to provide longer, better protection, said Henry, who urged those who have not yet had it to do so, since unvaccinated people are at significantly higher risk of needing to be hospitalized with COVID.
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