How will we know if our current vaccines work against the Omicron variant? Lab data is useful, says infectious disease scientist Wilbur Chen, but not the whole story. “That doesn’t really tell us how the human body will actually work to defeat the virus.”
A registered nurse gives Fabien Caunay, 17, a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in the Queens borough of New York, NY, July 30, 2021.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that starting July 30, a $100 gift voucher will be offered to any resident receiving a their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine shot at a city-run vaccination site; President Joe Biden asked all states to offer the $100 vaccine incentive as Coronavirus cases rise in the United States.
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