But some in the panel expressed scepticism about whether all Americans need to receive the shots annually. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday unanimously voted in favoUr of targeting the same coronavirus strain for initial Covid-19 vaccine doses and boosters going forward, but some expressed scepticism about whether all Americans need to receive the shots annually.
“We’re in a very different place. We have a lot of population immunity,” said Prof Hayley Gans, professor of paediatrics at Stanford University Medical Centre. “Now that people are immune, how long does that last?“ The FDA advisory group unanimously backed using those shots for the primary series for those who have yet to be vaccinated against Covid-19 as well.
Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna were able to produce the currently available messenger RNA boosters in about three months last year, but Novavax Inc said on Thursday it would require six months to make a new version of its protein-based Covid-19 vaccine designed to match circulating coronavirus variants.
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