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The updated shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech became available last week for everyone including children older than 6 months.

But public interest in COVID boosters has been meager: As of last spring, only 21% of adults and 43% of seniors nationwide had received the previously updated COVID-19 vaccine.

Ediz Tiyansan reports.

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