ModernaTX was given approval for Spikeax, a 2023–2024 updated version of the Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, as a single dose for all patients over 12. Emergency use authorizations (EUAs) were updated for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, allowing a single dose for patients 6 ...
FDA authorizes Novavax's updated COVID vaccine for fall 2023 The new shots are similar to previously approved formulas, but were updated to target the XBB variants of the virus, which became dominant last winter. "Updated COVID booster shots still provide the best protection we have against ...
While the public has grown accustomed to calling additional shots "boosters," health officials are now moving away from the word "booster," instead calling this year's shots the "2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine" or simply the "updated COVID-19 vaccine." This clarification helps distinguish previous...
Peter Marks, FDA’s vaccine chief, said in a statement. While children tend to get less seriously ill than adults, “as the various waves of COVID-19 have occurred, more children have gotten sick with the disease and have been hospitalized,” Marks said. For the updated booster made ...
ALSO READ:ECDC, EMA recommend COVID-19 vaccine update She said the data is limited because of the fewer number of booster doses given out and added that longer intervals between updated doses may also have an impact on the myocarditis rates in this population. ...
In Germany, booster shots have been targeted to these groups, while the British government's vaccine committee said only adults 65 and older and some other categories will be offered the shot as they are the most likely to benefit. U.S. CDC panel members said simply recommending the va...
A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 21, 2022.(Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images) A new, fourth round of COVID-19 booster shots was approved Tuesday, following th...
About a quarter said they have been too busy or have not had time to get the new booster yet. A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Nov. 21, 2022. ...
The mRNA vaccine technologies enable a single shot to address multiple variants, an approach taken with the most recent round of booster shots, which were designed to address the original strain and the Omicron variant. However, the updated vaccines approved and authorized on Monday are monovalent ...
Q. Why does vaccine protection wane over time? When you are vaccinated against any specific virus, the lymphocytes in your body that are specific for that virus will be stimulated and proliferate to increase in number, waiting for the next chance to tackle that virus. Booster shots will push...