The Food and Drug Administration is set to hold crucial meetings over the next two days to decide whether to issue booster shots of Johnson & Johnson and Moderna COVID vaccines. Follow Newsweek's liveblog for all the latest.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will hold crunch talks over Thursday and Friday on whether to support booster doses of both the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.decision is seen as crucial for both companies and Biden administration's vaccine rollout program
, but scientific data, as ever in politics, is only one part of the story and can be read in a number of ways.
President Biden's chief medical advisor said yesterday afternoon that airline pilots should be far more concerned about the potential health consequences of contracting COVID-19 than any risk of possible side effects from vaccines. We have examples of people - they may not necessarily be pilots, maybe there are some - who actually have gotten COVID and have had an unexplained but real impact on their ability to function normally.
Common side effects from all vaccines include a sore arm, a low-grade fever, and other mild flu-like symptoms lasting only a few days.
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