Booster?

[George K]

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[George K]

FDA Approves Moderna Boooster

Vaccine experts advising the Food and Drug Administration voted 19 to 0 Thursday to recommend authorization of an extra dose of Moderna Inc.’s Covid-19 shot, a key step in making booster doses available to millions more people.

A vaccine-advisory panel voted in favor of giving a Moderna booster shot at least six months after the second dose, to adults 65 years and older, as well as adults under 65 who are at high risk of severe Covid-19 or serious complications because of their jobs, living conditions or underlying medical conditions.

The panel voted in favor of a booster shot that is half the dosage of the first two doses. The FDA is expected to decide on whether to authorize the booster dose within days.

Moderna said the booster doses can be drawn from the same vials that contain the original two-dose vaccine series, meaning the boosters will be available soon after authorization.

Science!

Members of the FDA’s vaccine-advisory panel supported Moderna’s booster dose even though the evidence for it was from a small study and had mixed results.

“It’s more a gut feeling rather than based on really truly serious data,” said Patrick Moore, a member of the committee and a professor of molecular genetics and biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. “The data itself is not strong, but it is certainly going in the direction that is supportive of this vote.”

[Jolly]

Ain't no politics here. No siree...

[Mik]

No science either.

[George K]

@mik said in Booster?:

No science either.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/health/covid-boosters-cdc-fda.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Following a series of endorsements over the last month by scientific panels advising federal agencies, tens of millions of Americans are now eligible for booster shots of coronavirus vaccines.

But the recommendations — even those approved unanimously — mask significant dissent and disquiet among those advisers about the need for booster shots in the United States. …

All the advisers felt that they were obligated to make difficult choices, based on sparse research, in the middle of a public health emergency. But some said they felt compelled to vote for the shots because of the way the federal agencies framed the questions that they were asked to consider.

Other committee experts said that they wanted to avoid confusing the public further by dissenting, or that they voted according to their views of the evidence and were simply overruled.

“These are not evidence-based recommendations,” said Dr. Sarah S. Long, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, and a member of the C.D.C.’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

[Copper]

@george-k said in Booster?:

Other committee experts said that they wanted to avoid confusing the public further by dissenting,

That is very kind of them

I am easily confused

I just received my Moderna Booster a few minutes ago

But I do feel good about it, Mr. Biden went to so much trouble to provide this vaccine to me, the least I can do is have some shot into my arm

[Mik]

What I don't get is them OKing the mix and match approach. I don't have any problem with people doing it, but there can't possibly be sufficient studies for the government to come out in favor.