No season applies to COVID. So why do COVID booster shots exist?

Published Date: 06 Sep 2023

The new COVID booster shot, created to combat recent variants just as cases start to rise with colder weather, will start to become available to Americans in a few weeks. There is only one problem with this strategy: COVID does not actually.

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