A key adviser to the FDA's vaccine panel is questioning whether more Covid booster shots are necessary for healthy, younger people.
A health care worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a student at a "Vax to School" event at a high school in Staten Island, N.Y., on Aug. 10, 2021.Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
The evidence for the new versions of the vaccines for the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which the FDA authorized in August, is"underwhelming" and fails to show they are much better than the original shots, Dr.
Asking young, healthy people who have a lower risk of serious illness to get boosted with a variant-specific vaccine, followed by a different variant-specific formula a few months later, may not be practical, he said. , which recommend that everyone 6 months and older get updated vaccines at least two months after their last doses.
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