The Food and Drug Administation authorized reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines that aim to protect against the omicron variant.
Vials of the newly reformulated COVID-19 vaccine booster are being readied by Pfizer for distribution now that the Food and Drug Administration has authorized the shots for people 12 and older.
“The FDA has been planning for the possibility that the composition of the COVID-19 vaccines would need to be modified to address circulating variants. … We have worked closely with the vaccine manufacturers to ensure the development of these updated boosters was done safely and efficiently,” said Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,. “The FDA has extensive experience with strain changes for annual influenza vaccines.
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