FDA advisers are meeting next month to discuss whether COVID vaccines need to be modified again to better limit the fast-changing virus.
next month to discuss the state of the pandemic and whether COVID vaccines need to be modified again to better limit the fast-changing virus.Health experts say the Jan. 26 meeting, announced on Friday, will sketch out a long-term strategy that responds to new strains and shifting threats.
The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee last met on COVID in June. At the time, the committee"The vaccination program until now has been developed and revised on the fly," said Jason Schwartz, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health. "I think this meeting, at the start of 2023, signals that it's the right time for the FDA to really take a top-to-bottom appraisal of how they're going to think about COVID vaccination for next year and beyond," he added.The expert panel will evaluate the evolution of variants and the efficacy of current monovalent and bivalent vaccines to examine what the best course of action is for vaccinations moving forward.
"It just shows that COVID is becoming like the flu. In the sense that we've been talking about basically constantly tweaking the formulation of the vaccine. It's part of the normalization of COVID," Noymer added.
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