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What you should know about the new COVID booster shot

By Nomin Ujiyediin,
Trevor Grandin, Byron J. Love
Published September 14, 2022 at 4:00 AM CDT
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A new bivalent booster shot for COVID-19 is being administered at pharmacy chains in the Kansas City area and will soon be available at local health departments. Should you get one if you've already had a booster?

A new and improved COVID-19 vaccine booster is now being administered in Missouri. The hope is that it will protect against the original strain of COVID-19 as well as its dominant variants.

Whether and when you should get the shot will depend on a host of factors. KCUR's Nomin Ujiyediin spoke with health reporter Noah Taborda to try and answer your questions.

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Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love, Trevor Grandin, and KCUR Studios and edited by Gabe Rosenberg and Lisa Rodriguez.

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Nomin Ujiyediin
As a newscaster and a host of a daily news podcast, I want to deliver the most important and interesting news of the day in an engaging and easily understandable way. No matter where you live in the metro or what you’re interested in, I want you to learn something from each newscast or podcast – and maybe even give you something to talk about at the dinner table.
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Trevor Grandin
Trevor Grandin is a contributing producer for KCUR Studios.
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Byron J. Love
As an on-demand producer, I am focused on using my skills and experiences across multiple digital applications, platforms and media fields to create community focused audio, video and on-demand products for KCUR Studios. The media that I produce aims to inform, entertain and connect with the Kansas City metro area as we continue to learn from each other. Email me at byronlove@kcur.org.
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