Pfizer-BioNTech asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday for emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 booster shot for all adults ages 18 and up,
In Pfizer’s latest request, the company says that results from a Phase 3 clinical trial with more than 10,000 participants found that the third dose was safe and effective.
The question of when to lower age requirements for boosters came up during an FDA advisory committee meeting last month, though no votes were taken on the subject. At the time, some committee members signaled openness to revisiting it. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease doctor at the University of California, San Francisco, said his thinking on boosters has changed in recent months.
That the initial vaccinations still hold up against hospitalization and death for younger age groups is reassuring, but protection against infection is important, too, Chin-Hong said.
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