COVID-19 is making a sneaky return to New York City. Here's why.
, which is the dominant variant that is producing subvariants currently. We think that that will give us the best protection for this upcoming viral season. Much like the flu vaccine is updated every year, we expect that this vaccine is going to need to be updated regularly.
Those booster numbers — the amount of folks who got them last year — were not great: 18% of NYC adults, 7% of NYC kids.I would obviously, as the city's doctor, want more people to get boosted. I think when boosters came online, we were also approaching three years into the pandemic. There's a lot of fatigue around COVID in general. There's a lot of fatigue around vaccines.
Compared to some [viruses and] vaccines that give us up to 10 years or more, or sometimes lifetime immunity, COVID immunity lasts about six months, eight months, maybe 10 months. This is pretty typical of coronavirus.
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