FDA advisers endorse Moderna booster shot
The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory panel on Thursday unanimously endorsed use of Moderna’s Covid-19 booster shot for the elderly and younger people whose jobs, underlying health or other factors elevate their risk.
The panel recommended giving the shots at least six months after initial immunization. Its vote is not binding, but the FDA normally follows the recommendations of its advisory committees.
The Moderna plan endorsed by the panel would apply to largely the same groups currently eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot. For now, federal regulators only are planning to endorse giving people boosters from the same manufacturer as their initial shots, though the independent advisers will review preliminary data Friday on so-called “mix-and-match” boosting.
The FDA panel’s Friday meeting will also take up of Johnson & Johnson’s proposed booster.
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