Ahead of a meeting of vaccine advisers to the FDA, the New England Journal of Medicine will publish Israeli data showing a booster shot of Pfizer's vaccine dramatically decreased severe Covid-19, the director general of the Israeli Ministry of Health said
Ahead of a key meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration, the New England Journal of Medicine will publish Israeli data showing that a booster shot of Pfizer's vaccine dramatically decreased severe Covid-19, Dr. Nachman Ash, director general of the Israeli Ministry of Health, told CNN.
Israel began its booster program August 1, giving boosters to 2.8 million people so far. To date, much of the country's data on the efficacy of booster shots has not been reviewed by outside experts and published in a medical journal.
He noted that the FDA does its own internal review of data, and that his journal moves in a timely fashion to review data that could improve public health."If we are able to inform a public discussion, then we will work rapidly to do that," he said.Ash said the New England Journal of Medicine will also be publishing a second set of set of Ministry of Health data before the FDA advisers meet next week.
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