How often should Americans get their booster shot against COVID-19? How important is the booster to you if you’ve already been infected with COVID-19? Those are questions a panel of experts set out to answer during an FDA meeting Thursday.
The Food and Drug Administration wants to simplify the entire COVID-19 vaccine process to mirror what typically happens with the flu vaccine. Thursday’s meeting was focused on vaccine booster scheduling, and determining the composition of the vaccines. A local epidemiologist says it’s vital the FDA gets this right, for each and every American.
America’s top doctors met on a virtual meeting with the Food and Drug Administration, on the heels of a new study that revealed COVID boosters efficacy rate isn’t as high as some might expect. According to the newly released data, for adults ages 18-49, the boosters cut the odds of getting a symptomatic infection by just 52% and for those ages 50-64, the boosters cut the odds of getting sick to just 43%.
“So for example, if I were somebody who is very immune suppressed, I’m really concerned about getting, you know, COVID-19 and I’m really concerned about hospitalization, well, I would love something that could reduce that risk by 50%,” Kantor said. “Because, God forbid, I got sick, it could be a nightmare scenario, that’s very different from somebody who’s 25 years old, and has had COVID twice already.
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