As anticipated, a committee of impartial advisors for the Meals and Drug Administration voted unanimously (19-to-0) Thursday afternoon in favor of authorizing a booster dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for sure teams.
The teams flagged for reinforcing are people aged 65 and older, folks ages 18 to 64 who’re liable to extreme COVID-19 attributable to well being issues, and people 18 to 64 who’re liable to COVID-19 attributable to frequent institutional or occupational exposures, comparable to well being care and important employees. These are the identical teams that have been beforehand approved to get a Pfizer/BioNTech booster.
As with the Pfizer/BioNTech boosters, the Moderna boosters are to be given six months or longer after the primary two doses of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine.
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