FDA's vac­cine ad­comm unan­i­mous­ly sup­ports Mod­er­na's boost­er in same pop­u­la­tions as Pfiz­er's boost­er

The FDA’s vac­cine ad­vi­so­ry com­mit­tee on Thurs­day vot­ed 19-0 in sup­port of ex­pand­ing Mod­er­na’s Covid-19 vac­cine EUA for boost­er dos­es for cer­tain high-risk in­di­vid­u­als. FDA is ex­pect­ed to au­tho­rize the Mod­er­na boost­er short­ly.

Sim­i­lar­ly to the Pfiz­er boost­er shot, Mod­er­na’s will like­ly be au­tho­rized for those old­er than 65, adults at high risk of se­vere Covid-19, and adults whose fre­quent in­sti­tu­tion­al or oc­cu­pa­tion­al ex­po­sure to SARS-CoV-2 puts them at high risk of se­ri­ous com­pli­ca­tions of Covid-19. But un­like the Pfiz­er ad­comm, where FDA had to scram­ble to get the com­mit­tee to vote in fa­vor of a boost­er, this com­mit­tee was unan­i­mous with the Mod­er­na shot.

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