FDA approves updated Covid vaccines

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Don't miss outThe Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it had greenlit two updated Covid-19 booster shots in people as young as 6 months old, triggering a process that could see the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines become available in doctors’ offices, clinics, and pharmacies later this week. advertisementbridge program,” administered by the CDC, to provide Covid vaccines this fall to roughly 25 million to 30 million adults ages 18 to 64 who either do not have health insurance or whose insurance doesn’t cover Covid shots. The biggest controversy around the new vaccines is not likely to be the question the FDA had to answer — that is, to whom should these shots be available? It is the one that the CDC and its ACIP committee will answer later in the week: For whom should they be recommended?Senior Writer, Infectious DiseasesSenior Writer, Medicine, Editorial Director of EventsCovid-19FDAVaccinesBecome a STAT+ subscriber today! Become a STAT+ subscriber today!Become a STAT+ subscriber today! Become a STAT+ subscriber today!

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