The FDA asked its scientific advisers on Thursday to help chalk out plan to move to a flu shot-like schedule for coronavirus
A worker signals the next patient in line to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in Seattle on in April 2021.A worker signals the next patient in line to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in Seattle on in April 2021.Fri 27 Jan 2023 01.42 GMTThe US is poised to make Covid-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite a long list of questions about how to best protect against a still rapidly mutating virus.
That makes for tough decisions on how to move forward: who really needs another shot, how often and what kind? But more data is needed to show exactly who might need two yearly doses – such as a careful count of who still gets hospitalized with Covid-19 despite being up-to-date with today’s vaccinations, Offit said.
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