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    Now is the time to get a second COVID-19 booster shot, health official advises

    by Luke Money and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times Apr 01, 2022 6 minutes
    Safeway pharmacist Shahrzad Khoobyari administers a Pfizer COVID-19 booster vaccination into the arm of Norman Solomon at a vaccination booster shot clinic on Oct. 1, 2021 in San Rafael, California.

    LOS ANGELES — Now is the time for those at higher risk from COVID-19 to get a second booster dose, Los Angeles County’s public health director said, citing less-than-ideal overall vaccination rates along with concerns swirling around the rapid spread of the highly contagious BA.2 omicron subvariant.

    “Evidence all over the world shows waning protection from the vaccines over time,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Thursday. “People who are at higher risk, people who are older, people who have underlying health conditions: Don’t delay.”

    Ferrer made the comments days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made another booster dose available to adults age 50 and over, as well as those age 12 and up who have weakened immune systems.

    “I hear a lot (of) — ‘I’m just going to wait. I think there’s going to be something better. I don’t want to keep getting a shot every four months.’

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