The variant that the updated vaccines were designed to target has already all-but-disappeared from the U.S., and new ones have emerged.
This year’s updated Covid-19 vaccines will arrive at pharmacies weeks later than doses did last year, despite rising rates of Covid-19 in hospitals across the country.
“We are working closely with public health officials and regulators to ensure vaccine is available as soon as possible,” Moderna spokesman Christopher Ridley told Barron’s on Thursday. FDA authorization or approval, however, isn’t likely for weeks. A CDC recommendation can’t happen until after the FDA acts.
Moderna and Pfizer have both said that their updated boosters generated an immune response to EG. 5, and Moderna also said its booster induced a significant boost in neutralizing antibodies against FL. 1.5.1. The healthcare system risks missing an opportunity to use these high-priced updated shots when they would be most valuable, before new variants push out the ones the boosters were designed to target.
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