The Food and Drug Administration is expected to green light new COVID-19 vaccines any day now to help people protect themselves from the latest strains of the virus.
The new COVID vaccines are designed to keep the shots up to date with the virus, which keeps evolving to evade our immune systems.
“The new formulations cover the variants that have been circulating more recently,” Dr. Peter Marks, who runs the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, tells NPR. “So the hope is that the closer we match the strain, the better protection one will have, and perhaps the longer the protection we’ll have.”
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