The Biden administration may scrap plans to let more younger adults get second COVID-19 boosters this summer. Instead, officials are trying to speed up availability of the next generation of boosters in the fall.
The FDA is trying to make “bivalent” COVID vaccines, which target two different antigens, available as soon as September.
But the possible shift is being met with mixed reactions. The Food and Drug Administration could make a final decision by the end of the week. That’s why the administration is considering shifting the focus to the next generation of boosters. Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTechto get new, hopefully more powerful “bivalent” boosters ready by October or November that target both the original strain of the virus and omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.
And giving two shots too close together could actually backfire from a health perspective, according to some experts. “I don’t see the benefit waiting for a BA.5-specific booster since BA.5 may be in the rearview mirror and well past us by the time that’s available,” says Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine.
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