Surge of BA.5: Biden of­fi­cials to stay the course with Covid strat­e­gy, prep for bi­va­lent boost­ers in Oc­to­ber

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s top Covid-19 ad­vis­ers said Tues­day that they aren’t chang­ing up their strat­e­gy as the rise of the new Omi­cron sub­vari­ant, BA.5, con­tin­ues to blan­ket the coun­try.

While stress­ing that Amer­i­cans should stay up-to-date on their boost­er shots, par­tic­u­lar­ly for those over 50, NIH’s Tony Fau­ci, CDC Di­rec­tor Rochelle Walen­sky and White House Coro­n­avirus Re­sponse Co­or­di­na­tor Ashish Jha stressed that those re­ceiv­ing boost­ers now will not miss out on the Omi­cron-tar­get­ed boost­ers com­ing this fall.

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