Omicron in the US: What You Need to Know (with Scott Gottlieb)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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Is the Boosted Vaccine Sufficiently Protective?
In a likely scenario, i think we end up with abude boosted vaccine is effective enough that would not to take the risk of switching over. But there may be a portion of the population, older individuals, anmuna compromised individuals, that need the extra protection of a omicron specific vaccine. I'm speculating, but i don't think tat you want to roll this out to everyone. And partof the reason you won't want toroll aloud to everyone is you also, i'm not sure that from a public health standpoint, an menological standpoint, you want to suddenly bias the entire immunity of the entire population away from everything else and towards this new variant.
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