The FDA advisers will meet Thursday to discuss simplifying the COVID-19 vaccination schedule, allowing most people to get the currently available booster, regardless of how many doses they had received before that.
are required to complete a primary vaccination series — at least two doses of either the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or Novavax vaccines or a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine— before they can get a booster dose two months later.
The FDA’s proposal, experts say, would greatly simplify the COVID vaccination schedule in the United States — aligning it more closely with theIn another similarity to the flu shot, the FDA is considering whether the COVID vaccine should be updated at least once a year, based on what strains are in circulation.
Dr. Anna Durbin, a vaccine researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said simplifying the COVID vaccine schedule makes sense.
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