A federal advisory panel unanimously endorsed additional shots for certain Moderna and Johnson & Johnson recipients.
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Previously, the only people in the United States who could get their hands on that additional dose were select recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. T hey had to be 65 years or older, work some kind of job that put them at high risk for contracting COVID , or have a medical condition that made them susceptible to a severe case of the disease. Immunocompromized Moderna recipients were also eligible for a third shot.
On Thursday, however, a federal advisory panel within the Food and Drug Administration unanimously endorsed Moderna vaccine boosters for certain individuals,reports. And on Friday, that same committee, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee , once again voted unanimously in favor of giving select Johnson & Johnson recipients another dose of the single-shot vaccine.
A lot of the details concerning these expansions to COVID vaccine booster access obviously still have to be worked out in the days ahead. For example, a top FDA official told the aforementioned panel that the agency might allow for Johnson & Johnson recipients to “mix and match” their shots with a Pfizer or Moderna booster, per
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