The meeting comes days after the drugmaker asserted a booster would be needed within 12 months.
suggest that the two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine offer good protection against the highly transmissible delta variant, particularly in reducing the risk of severe illness and hospitalizations.last week that early data from the company's booster study suggests people's antibody levels jump five- to 10-fold after a third dose, compared to their second dose months earlier — evidence it believes supports the need for a booster.
"There is a normal course of business to how this works. But these aren't normal times and they've been having all sorts of extra meetings to get things reviewed quicker and get through this emergency," said John Grabenstein, a former executive director of medical affairs for vaccines at Merck and a former Department of Defense immunologist.
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