The FDA this week is expected to authorize the first updated versions of the COVID-19 boosters since the pandemic began. | via NPR
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week is expected to authorize the first updated versions of the COVID-19 boosters since the pandemic began.
The hope is the shots will bolster peoples' waning immunity and provide stronger protection against catching the virus, spreading it and getting sick with COVID and long COVID. For the first time, the FDA is judging how well the vaccines work without results from tests done directly in people. To save time, the FDA is
"That makes us feel confident that they will do what they are intended to do, which is to produce a good immune response against the BA.4/5 variant, as well as refresh our overall response given the original component of the vaccine as well," Marks says.rejected new boosters that targeted the original strain of omicron, known as BA.1
Some experts say the data from the BA.1 boosters indicate any potential improvement could be pretty modest at best. After the FDA authorizes the vaccines, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet Thursday and Friday to decide whether to recommend it and who should receive it. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky will then have to sign off on that recommendation.health problems need to get another booster since the first shots are still protecting most people against severe disease.
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