{"id":570760,"date":"2023-04-18T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fda-authorizes-second-bivalent-covid-booster-for-older-adults\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:01:10","slug":"fda-authorizes-second-bivalent-covid-booster-for-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fda-authorizes-second-bivalent-covid-booster-for-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"#FDA authorizes second bivalent COVID booster for older adults"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized a second dose of Omicron-targeting COVID-19 vaccines for older adults as well as those with a weak immune system.<\/p>\n

The agency also said the updated shots from Pfizer-BioNTech\/ and Moderna would become the new primary COVID vaccine, and withdrew its emergency-use authorization for the older messenger RNA vaccines that target only the original version of coronavirus.<\/p>\n

People aged 65 years and older can now receive a second dose of updated booster four months after the first, while immunocompromised people can get an additional shot of the updated vaccine after two months, the agency said.<\/p>\n

FDA’s decision comes a day before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) panel of expert advisers’ meeting on updating COVID-19 vaccination guidelines.<\/p>\n

The CDC would have to recommend the second Omicron-tailored shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna for them to become widely available.<\/p>\n

The FDA authorized the bivalent COVID boosters in August that target the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants, along with the original strain of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Only around 17% of the U.S. population has received the bivalent boosters, but among people aged 65 years and older, the uptake is higher, about 42.6% of them have received their first shot of the updated vaccines.The authorization withdrawal for Moderna Inc and Pfizer-BioNTech’s older vaccines, comes at a time when the FDA plans to shift to an annual COVID booster campaign with an updated strain, similar to the way Americans get their flu shots.<\/p>\n

The FDA also said it will hold another meeting of its advisers in June to discuss the strain composition of the COVID-19 vaccines for the fall season, with mRNA vaccine manufacturers expected to update their shots once the specific strains are selected.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Leroy Leo in Bengaluru, additional reporting by Michael Erman in New York; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)<\/p>\n

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