Some Americans will soon be able to get another shot of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccines, the FDA authorized Tuesday, including seniors ages 65 and older and people with compromised immune systems.
Seniors can get the dose as early as four months after their first shot of bivalent vaccine. Immunocompromised Americans can get more doses as early as two months after.
The FDA's new authorizations come as part of a sweeping set of revisions to streamline the myriad of immunization schedules that had been laid out for Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, moving them close to the annual seasonal"At this stage of the pandemic, data support simplifying the use of the authorized mRNA bivalent COVID-19 vaccines and the agency believes that this approach will help encourage future vaccination," the FDA's top vaccines official Dr.
"The FDA intends to make decisions about future vaccination after receiving recommendations on the fall strain composition at an FDA advisory committee in June," the regulator said., authorities also will allow still-unvaccinated Americans to bypass the two original monovalent shots that were designed to target the original strain of the virus earlier in the pandemic.
"Evidence is now available that most of the U.S. population 5 years of age and older has antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, either from vaccination or infection that can serve as a foundation for the protection provided by the bivalent vaccines," Marks said.
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