An FDA official told vaccine experts reviewing who should get an additional dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine that there isn’t enough data to allow for mixing and matching of different shots
A federal health official said Wednesday there isn’t enough data to support giving a Pfizer Inc. booster dose to people who have received other Covid-19 vaccines.
Doran Fink, a deputy director in the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccines division, made the remarks at a meeting of a key vaccine advisory panel that would recommend who should get
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