FDA plans to limit COVID vaccine to only high-risk people
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers unanimously recommended on Thursday that COVID-19 vaccines for the 2025-26 period should target newer strains of the JN.1 variant. COVID vaccine makers are seeing increased regulatory scrutiny under the new FDA leadership,
Historically, almost everyone has been eligible for Covid vaccines; the C.D.C. recommended the most recent vaccine for all Americans over 6 months of age.
Government vaccine advisers are meeting to decide if the recipe for COVID-19 vaccines needs updating for this fall and winter.
The advisory committee, which met after the agency rolled out new vaccine guidelines, said companies should tailor their booster doses to the “JN.1” coronavirus lineage.
The U.S. government has not yet made its official recommendations for who should be able to get COVID booster shots this fall, but FDA officials published a policy position in the New England Journal of Medicine announcing that it intends to make some drastic policy changes.
A group of experts who advise the US Food and Drug Administration on its vaccine decisions voted unanimously Thursday to make a broad recommendation about which lineage of the coronavirus should be included in this year’s Covid-19 vaccines,
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers unanimously recommended on Thursday that COVID-19 vaccines for the 2025-26 period should target newer strains of the JN.1 variant. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,