San Diego County is in the middle of a summer COVID-19 wave, and new federal rules are making it harder for people to know whether they can get a booster.

During the week ending Aug. 9, reported in the county rose by more than a 100 compared to the week before. UC San Diego infectious disease specialist Dr. Davey Smith said the peak has yet to come.

“Over the next three, four weeks, there’ll be a lot of us San Diegans who get infected,” Smith said.

This year, federal policy changes have shifted how COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out. Instead of broad Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommendations, new Food and Drug Administration rules now limit which groups providers can vaccinate. A delayed of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, pushed to mid-September, has also sl

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