Ask the Docs: An omicron-specific booster dose and your questions about monkeypox

The Food and Drug Administration is shelving plans for a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for people under 50 in order to look ahead to updated boosters in a few months.

We pose our questions and yours to Dr. Cassandra Pierre, infectious disease physician at Boston Medical Center, and Dr. Mark Siedner, clinical epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.