The Illinois Department of Public Health warned Friday that COVID cases are on the rise in the state.
The numbers remain low, however, when compared to earlier in the pandemic.
Guidance is expected from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in the coming weeks, according to a statement. Currently, COVID booster shots and initial doses are formulated as “bivalent” vaccines, meaning they offer protection both against the original strain of COVID that impacted the U.S. in 2020, and the Omicron variants known as BA.4 and BA.5, which were the most-recent dominant strains of the virus.
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