The FDA has scheduled an Oct. 15 meeting of its advisory committee to discuss whether to grant authorization for a booster dose of the J&J vaccine.
given about two months after the first increased its effectiveness to 94 percent against moderate to severe forms of the disease.were possibly at risk of expiring because the FDA will not further extend the shelf life of the shots. It's unclear how many J&J doses could be wasted, but the federal government has shipped 22 million doses to states and only 15 million have been administered so far, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rival Moderna also submitted its application seeking authorization for a booster shot of its two-dose vaccine last month and FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee panel will hold a meeting on Oct. 14 to discuss the additional dose.
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