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Few Long Beach residents have gotten new COVID booster aimed at omicron variant

Long Beach Post, Oct. 13, 2022

October 13, 2022

Few Long Beach residents have gotten new COVID booster aimed at omicron variant

Andrew Noymer, an associate professor of population health and disease prevention at UC Irvine, offered a few reasons as to why so few people across the country have gotten the new booster shot. …  He also noted that while public health specialists “don’t actually know how well it will protect people, I certainly recommend that people get it. I absolutely see a winter surge” of new COVID-19 infections, Noymer said, and the new booster could do much to alleviate that.