Vaccines are expected to be delivered to pharmacies and providers soon.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that Americans aged six months or older receive the new version of the Covid-19 vaccines that are specially designed to target the XBB lineage, the newest strains of the virus—the latest regulatory step toward getting updated shots in arms.Key Facts
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an arm of the CDC composed of medical experts, voted 13-1 to recommend the vaccines, which are produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, for people six months or older during its meeting Tuesday.
The recommendation then got the final signoff needed from CDC Director Mandy Cohen to begin administering the shots.
The CDC also recommended that providers stop administering the bivalent Covid-19 vaccine, which was the most recent iteration of the vaccine prior to this new one and was approved last year to target earlier coronavirus strains.
