At least some adults in the United States might be getting updated COVID-19 shots this fall after advisers to the federal Food and Drug Administration voted that it’s time to tweak booster doses to better match the most recent virus variants.
They made that recommendation after wrestling over exactly how to modify doses now when there’s no way to know how the rapidly mutating virus will evolve by fall — especially given that people who get today’s recommended boosters remain strongly protected against the worst outcomes of coronavirus infections.
