'Vac­cines are not par­ti­san': White House ramps up de­liv­ery of bi­va­lent boost­ers

Less than a week af­ter the FDA signed off on Omi­cron-spe­cif­ic bi­va­lent Covid vac­cines from both Mod­er­na and Pfiz­er, fed­er­al health of­fi­cials an­nounced that the shots will be avail­able to most Amer­i­cans by the end of the week — and could pre­vent up to 100,000 hos­pi­tal­iza­tions this fall and win­ter.

The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has al­ready be­gun ship­ping mil­lions of pre-or­dered dos­es to tens of thou­sands of vac­cine cen­ters na­tion­wide, HHS Sec­re­tary Xavier Be­cer­ra said dur­ing a White House press brief­ing on Tues­day morn­ing.

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