Flashback: The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have approved a second booster vaccine for people aged 50 and over, which should be taken four months after the first booster dose.
However, it is not clear whether this policy extends to the general population.
The last: The team of external experts is still considering whether or not COVID-19 boosters will be needed for the general population and how the population is considering boost shots in the future.
FDA scientists may approve a process where experts decide on vaccines based on different strains – such as the flu, NBC News reports.
What they say: “This debate today is a much bigger debate – it’s a debate about what we do for the whole population and what we do when we think the virus has evolved further,” said Peter Marks, director of the FDA Biological Assessment Center. and Research, according to Reuters. The largest image: This comes as new research suggests that protection against infection from a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine is rapidly declining, according to CNN.
The fourth shot, however, still protects against severe COVID-19, CNN reports.
