“We now have another fully approved COVID-19 vaccine,” Walensky said.
Sixty-four percent of Americans, or 212.4 million people, have been fully vaccinated, and 42% of those who have been fully vaccinated have gotten booster shots, according to the CDC.
There were no new concerns, but the vaccine had been linked to rare cases of anaphylaxis and myocarditis.
The numbers of deaths are rising in 35 states, but that is attributed to the time between being infected and when a person dies, the AP reported.
Both Moderna and its competitor Pfizer are working on variant-specific vaccines that will target the omicron version of the virus.
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