The agency aligns with the Food and Drug Administration authorization Wednesday night which said people could switch to whichever vaccine they wanted for their booster shot.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's independent advisory panel voted unanimously to recommend booster doses of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccine for certain populations and allow people to mix-and-match doses.Subscribe for freeThe Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices panel weighed the challenge in allowing younger people to for a booster qualify based on increased exposure to risk, despite lack of data.
Dosing for the Moderna booster will be less than its two-dose regiment and will be permitted six months after the third shot. J&J will be allowed after two months. Serious side effects after all vaccines are extremely rare, five separate updates on vaccine safety showed.Public health experts see a positive effect in unifying recommendations specific populations who took any of the three vaccines.
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