SARASOTA °®¶¹´«Ã½” New COVID-19 vaccine boosters are slowly rolling out locally even as ways of eliminating the need for multiple injections are being explored.
One is by developing an annual vaccine like the yearly flu shot, said Dr. Manuel Gordillo, medical director of Sarasota Memorial Hospital Infection Prevention and Control in an online news conference Wednesday.
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