An advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is meeting on May 19 to discuss whether to recommend COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for children ages 5 to 11, a group that is just 29% vaccinated so far.
Current COVID-19 booster shots have a problem: they last only about four months and appear to have limited efficacy in a vaccinated population. Clearly, a more durable, more efficacious vaccine is needed, but what should it be? The scientific community has not reached a consensus, according to BioSpace.
The U.S. drug regulator said on March 21 a panel of independent advisers will meet on April 6 to discuss considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses.
On the day the public and members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee were going to get a look at Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine data for children under 5 years old, the companies pulled the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) submission.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee recommended emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children 5 through 11 years of age, with 17 members voting yes and one abstention.
Outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 15 unanimously recommended the regulatory agency authorize a second shot of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine for all recipients of the one-dose inoculation.
A panel of expert advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unanimously voted on Oct. 14 to recommend booster shots of Moderna Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine for Americans aged 65 and older and those at high risk of severe illness or occupational exposure to the virus.
Pfizer indicated that the company’s Phase III clinical trial of 44,000 volunteers with partner BioNTech needed less than 2,000 people to be fully enrolled.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented details about Covid-19 and the requirements for a vaccine in a nine-hour virtual meeting.
