Fortune September 11, 2022
Erin Prater

Annual COVID vaccines, much like annual flu shots, will likely be reality in the near future, White House officials declared this week—further bolstering the case that the acute phase of the pandemic, at least, has drawn to a close.

“In the absence of a dramatically different variant, we likely are moving towards a path with a vaccination cadence similar to that of the annual influenza vaccine,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and physician to the president, said at a news conference heralding the approval and distribution of new Omicron boosters.

Ideally, updates to the COVID-19 shot will be made each year to match circulating strains, as is done with the...

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