FDA approves updated Pfizer, Moderna Covid vaccines as virus surges; shots to be available within days

• The Food and Drug Administration approved updated Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, putting the shots on track to reach most Americans in the coming days as the virus surges.
• The jabs target a strain called KP.2, a descendant of the highly contagious omicron subvariant JN.1 that began circulating widely in the U.S. earlier this year.
• The CDC recommended that everyone over 6 months old receive an updated Covid vaccine this year.

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