The U.S. drugmaker shared a new analysis that showed the incidence of breakthrough Covid cases was less frequent in people who were more recently vaccinated.
The analysis hasn't been peer-reviewed yet.
The group, known as the agency's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, is scheduled to debate administering third doses of Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine as federal health regulators say they need more time to review Moderna's application for extra doses. "If you take that number, which in the paper is roughly 28 cases per 1,000 person, and you extrapolate that across the 60 million Americans who've received that vaccine. The incremental number of cases of Covid-19 that would happen between here and the hospitals is about 600,000, more than half a million cases of Covid-19," he said.on whether to back booster shots of Pfizer's Covid vaccine, saying U.S. regulators haven't verified all the available evidence.
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