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FDA Advisors Call for an End to Never-Ending Booster Shots as They Map Out Future of Living With COVID-19
πΊπΈπ@COVID19Up: The nation's top disease and vaccine experts are trying to figure out their next move against COVID-19.
On Wednesday (April 6), an independent advisory committee to the FDA—the agency entrusted with ensuring the country's COVID-19 vaccine supply is not only safe, but also useful and well-updated—met to discuss the future of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. It was a departure from the committee's previous meetings during the pandemic, which have focused more deliberately on OK'ing specific COVID-19 vaccines.
Dr. Peter Marks, who directs the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (the arm of the FDA that is in charge of regulating all vaccines) acknowledged the current COVID-19 vaccine strategy of boost-every-few-months with the original vaccine recipe—based on virus sequenced from Wuhan, China in January 2020—is not sustainable.
"We simply can't be boosting people as frequently as we…
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