A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Wednesday recommended updating the formula for COVID vaccines ahead of a fall campaign that will encourage Americans to get the latest shots.
reported. However, JN.1 has been overtaken by descendants known as KP.2 and KP.3 this spring.Dr. Peter Marks, who oversees the FDA's vaccine division, urged the committee to consider encouraging the mRNA vaccine makers to focus on the latest versions of the virus, and not the JN.1 variant, the“If this evolves further in the fall, will we regret not having been a little bit closer?” Marks asked., said that aiming at JN.
Still, last year's COVID vaccination rate was markedly low, with CDC researchers reporting that only 18 percent of immunocompromised adults had gotten the updated vaccine, while just over 20 percent of all adults had received the shot.
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