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FDA advisers back updated COVID shots for fall vaccinations

The COVID-19 vaccine will be updated in hopes of targeting the strains of omicron that will be circulating later this year. (Esteban Felix/AP)

A panel of expert advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously Thursday to recommend that the COVID-19 vaccine be updated to target emerging subvariants of omicron.

The COVID shot that's currently available is known as a "bivalent" vaccine because it was tailored to target both the original strain of the coronavirus and the omicron subvariants that dominated last winter.

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