New omicron-specific COVID vaccine booster to become available in North Dakota, Minnesota

BISMARCK — A recently approved booster vaccine that offers protection against the most common COVID-19 variant will become available in North Dakota and Minnesota as soon as this week.

Last week, federal health officials approved and endorsed a single-dose booster shot that offers protection against the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 strain this is now the predominant variant globally.

The "bivalent" booster shot is approved for people 12 and older who have already received their first series of the COVID-19 vaccine. Recipients of the new booster must be at least two months out from their previous dose of the vaccine.

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