Updated COVID boosters expected shortly after Labor Day - NY Times
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The Biden administration is eying a campaign to begin the rollout of updated COVID-19 vaccines that provides protection against Omicron subvariants shortly after Labor Day, The New York Times reported.
In an interview with the newspaper, Peter Marks, director of the US FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, which oversees vaccines, said the agency is close to approving the new shots.

Both Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) and Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)/BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) this week submitted applications for Emergency Use Authorizations for their bivalent vaccines that provide protection against the original COVID strain as well as the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants.
The companies are expected to deliver 175M doses of updated COVID-19 vaccines for the new campaign.