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A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday recommended that new vaccines from Pfizer and GSK to prevent severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections be available to older adults in the U.S. but stopped short of saying all of them should get the shots.

A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday will vote on whether to recommend the use of recently approved vaccines from Pfizer and GSK to prevent severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in older adults.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) circulation is showing signs of return to pre-pandemic seasonality in the U.S. after two years of irregular onsets and peaks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday.

The frontrunners in a crowded race to develop the first respiratory syncytial virus vaccine – Pfizer Inc and GSK – will face scrutiny from a panel of experts to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week.