'Before the pandemic, RSV was the No. 1 cause of infant hospitalization in the United States, so this is a big deal.'
An FDA advisory panel is considering whether to recommend approval of a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for infants."Before the pandemic, RSV was the No. 1 cause of infant hospitalization in the United States, so this is a big deal," Ofer Levy, MD, the director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children's Hospital, told Levy is a temporary voting member of the FDA advisory panel but is not involved in this vote, which the FDA is not required to follow.
The vaccine, which is made by Pfizer, would be given to pregnant women in their final trimester, with the protection being passed through the placenta to the unborn baby.
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