The FDA’s advisory group will meet Thursday and Friday to discuss Moderna and J&J's booster doses.
and decided boosters should also be offered to those with high-risk jobs such as teachers and health care workers, adding tens of millions more Americans to the list.to persuade the unvaccinated to get their first shots. They worry that the talk of boosters will lead people to wrongly doubt the effectiveness of the vaccines in the first place.
The FDA meetings come as U.S. vaccinations have climbed back above 1 million per day on average, an increase of more than 50 percent over the past two weeks. The rise has been driven mainly by Pfizer boosters andWhile the FDA and CDC so far have endorsed Pfizer boosters for specific groups only, Biden administration officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, have suggested that extra shots will eventually be recommended for most Americans.
A company study of 344 people gave them a 50-microgram shot six months after their second dose, and levels of virus-fighting antibodies jumped. Moderna said the booster even triggered a 42-fold rise in antibodies able to target the extra-contagious delta variant.to the fevers and aches that Moderna recipients commonly experience after their second regular shot, the company said.
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