It’s Too Soon for Annual Covid Booster Shots, Some Experts Say

It’s too early to tell if the US population will need annual Covid-19 booster shots, infectious disease doctors say. They say they don’t yet know how best to respond to the unpredictable patterns of new variants.

But a “regular cadence” of annual Covid-19 shots in line with flu shots would “get more people to get into a rhythm of keeping up to date,” Anthony S. Fauci, President Joe Biden’s former chief medical adviser, said in an interview.

A panel of 21 advisers to the Food and Drug Administration Jan. 26 recommended making bivalent Covid-19 shots the standard form of the ...