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Why St. Luke’s University Health Network isn’t recommending the new COVID vaccine

One regional hospital system is taking a wait and see approach to recommending the latest COVID vaccines.

A nurse at a Walgreens pharmacy near Florida International University's Tamiami campus on 107th Avenue in Miami-Dade shows a patient the newly formulated Moderna bivalent vaccine on Sept. 7, 2022. The vaccine is an "updated booster" designed to target not only the original COVID-19 strain, but also omicron BA.4 and BA.5, which had surged in the U.S. in 2022. (Howard Cohen/Miami Herald/TNS)
A nurse at a Walgreens pharmacy near Florida International University's Tamiami campus on 107th Avenue in Miami-Dade shows a patient the newly formulated Moderna bivalent vaccine on Sept. 7, 2022. The vaccine is an "updated booster" designed to target not only the original COVID-19 strain, but also omicron BA.4 and BA.5, which had surged in the U.S. in 2022. (Howard Cohen/Miami Herald/TNS)Read moreHoward Cohen / MCT