Pfizer's booster is for ages 5+ and Moderna's booster is for ages 6+.
For children younger than 5, the companies expect to apply for authorization before the end of the year.
Everyone eligible should get these boosters. They better target the circulating variants and improve the immune response. If you've had at least the primary series of any of the vaccines, you are 5 or older, and it is more than 2 months since your last dose, go and get the updated boosters!
If 80% of eligible people get these updated Omicron-specific boosters, we can avert 160k deaths, 1.7 million hospitalizations, and avoid $109 billion in medical costs through March 2023. Let's not make this winter miserable.
CDC Authorization: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/s1012-COVID-19-Vaccines.html