Booster shots effective against severe illness from omicron | CNBC

CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad is quoted in CNBC article about new research released by the CDC:

“…The three new studies from the agency are among the first to look at the vaccines’ impact against omicron in the United States, which now accounts for more than 99 percent of new cases in the country.The research underscores the importance of booster shots to protect against severe illness from the rapidly spreading variant, which has overwhelmed hospitals.

‘You don’t want to be that one person that has a bad outcome, that requires hospitalization, when there’s no hospital bed for you,’ said Syra Madad, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs…”

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