We are getting a amended timeline connected boosters for COVID-19 vaccines and the support of vaccines for children.
Here’s a look astatine the timeline the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released Friday.
On Oct. 14, the FDA’s advisory committee volition conscionable to sermon and perchance urge support of booster shots for radical who received Moderna’s vaccine.
Then, the adjacent day, that committee volition conscionable to perchance urge support of boosters for those who received Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Also, that day, the committee volition sermon perchance mixing and matching vaccine boosters — that is, getting a booster that’s antithetic from your archetypal vaccine.
Then, astir a week and a fractional later, connected Oct. 26, the FDA has scheduled a gathering to o.k. the Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.
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Pfizer has not yet applied for that exigency usage authorization, but the FDA expects it volition soon, truthful the gathering has been scheduled.
Meanwhile, Merck announced the archetypal oral medicine that shows committedness successful warring COVID-19.
The White House COVID-19 Response Team said Merck volition beryllium submitting its information to the FDA soon to get the cause approved.
“The information are impressive. There was a 50% diminution of importance, is that, successful the placebo group, determination were 8 deaths, and, successful the attraction group, determination were nary deaths. That’s besides precise important and precise bully news,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, manager of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.”
Digging a small deeper into the data: Fauci mentioned 775 radical with mild oregon mean COVID-19 were involved. Half got the medicine, and the different fractional got a placebo.
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Of those fixed the pill, 28 were hospitalized and nary died. Of those who received the placebo, 45 were hospitalized and 8 died.
If approved, the national authorities has already contracted to acquisition 1.7 cardinal doses of this caller antiviral drug.
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