FDA Approves COVID Election Booster to Begin Immediately
[Last Refuge] As expected, the FDA has approved a new series of COVID-19 "booster" vaccines which are immediately available for anyone who trusts the institutions of government to be focused on your health and wellbeing. For everyone else, hard pass.
"The FDA is confident in the safety and effectiveness of these updated vaccines and the agency’s benefit-risk assessment demonstrates that the benefits of these vaccines for individuals 6 months of age and older outweigh their risks."
FDA — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took action approving and authorizing for emergency use updated COVID-19 vaccines formulated to more closely target currently circulating variants and to provide better protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death. Today’s actions relate to updated mRNA vaccines for 2023-2024 manufactured by ModernaTX Inc. and Pfizer Inc. Consistent with the totality of the evidence and input from the FDA’s expert advisors, these vaccines have been updated to include a monovalent (single) component that corresponds to the Omicron variant XBB.1.5.
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Posted by: Besoeker 2023-09-12 |