BREAKING: FDA advisory panel votes against offering Covid-19 vaccine booster shots for the general population, citing concerns about the safety of the boosters in younger people.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted against a Covid-19 booster for the general population Friday, a decision that could put the agency at odds with Biden administration officials who have been pushing to begin giving out booster shots to healthy adults as soon as next week.
The Biden administration announced last month that it planned to begin offering a booster shot to the general population starting the week of Sept. 20, essentially starting the countdown for the FDA and the CDC to act.
Representatives from Pfizer said the need for a booster is based on data from Israel, which showed that severe cases increased tenfold from July to August, despite the fact that 60 percent of the population there was fully vaccinated. The two countries also vary differently in population, pandemic and acceptance of vaccines. “You really have a very different situation in Israel than what we are facing here in the US at this point in time,” said Dr. Archana Chatterjee, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases at Rosalind Franklin University in Chicago.
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