By Gina Shaw
The best defense against the new SARS-CoV-2 variant, omicron, is the same strategy the nation has been using since it became available: Get vaccinated, according to public health experts. And if you are vaccinated, get boosted, they added.
“It looks like there is still protection afforded by our current vaccines against the omicron variant of COVID-19, but we still have a lot to learn,” said Peter Marks, MD, PhD, the director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics