Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine was authorized by the FDA as a booster for adults who don’t want or can’t access or might have medical reasons to avoid the dual-target booster shots from Pfizer or Moderna
The new bivalent vaccine might be the first step in developing annual Covid shots, which could follow a similar process to the one used to update flu vaccines every year. Here’s what that process looks like, and why applying it to Covid could be challenging. Illustration: Ryan TrefesThe Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization to Novavax Inc.’s Covid-19 shot as a booster for adults.
The shot targets the original strain of the virus, whereas the updated booster shots from Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc. and its partner BioNTech SE , authorized in August by the FDA, target both the original strain and
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