What to Know About the New COVID Booster

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 7, 2022

Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD, infectious disease physician with a PhD in molecular medicine, researcher at Columbia, ProHEALTH chief of the division of Infectious Disease, president of Parasites Without Borders and co-host of the podcast This Week in Virology, talks about the new COVID booster that targets the omicron variant -- who should get it and when -- and where we are with spread-prevention.

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