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A new COVID-19 booster each fall?

An FDA advisory committee recommended a major overhaul to how COVID shots are issued

Salon · Jan 27, 2023

EU Commission 'has a responsibility to come clean' on 'Pfizergate': EU Ombudsman

Emily O'Reilly, who heads the EU Ombudsman, says she has been stonewalled by the European Commission when asking for information in relation to the "Pfizergate" affair. At the core of this controversy is an exchange of text messages between the EU Commission chief and the CEO of Pfizer in the…

France 24 · Jan 27, 2023

FDA experts are still puzzled over who should get which COVID-19 shots and when

At a meeting to simplify the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination policy, the FDA’s panel of experts could agree on only one thing: Information is woefully lacking about how often different groups of Americans need to be vaccinated. That data gap has contributed to widespread skepticism, undervaccination, and ultimately unnecessary deaths from…

Tribune News Service · Jan 27, 2023

FDA committee plots future of COVID vaccines, with Omicron formula and potentially annual booster shots

The aim of Thursday’s meeting was to “determine if we’ve reached a point in the pandemic where we can simplify and take a more routine approach,” said Dr. David Kaslow, director of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review at the FDA.

Fortune · Jan 26, 2023

Gov. Greg Abbott says he won’t give up COVID-era power until Texas lawmakers ban vaccine mandates, strengthen border

Abbott doubles down on his long-standing call to lawmakers to prohibit local governments from enacting mask and vaccine mandates.

The Texas Tribune · Jan 26, 2023

U.S. CDC still looking at potential stroke risk from Pfizer bivalent COVID shot

New data from one U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database shows a possible stroke risk link for older adults who received an updated Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 booster shot, but the signal is weaker than what the agency had flagged earlier in January, health officials said on Thursday.

Reuters · Jan 26, 2023

FDA advisers back the same COVID vaccine for initial shots, boosters

Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of targeting the same coronavirus strain for initial COVID-19 vaccine doses and boosters going forward, but some expressed skepticism about whether all Americans need to receive the shots annually.

Reuters · Jan 26, 2023

How third Covid vaccine dose could help 'level up' their immunity

First booster increased antibody levels across the board, bringing most vulnerable groups in line with the rest of population

Wales Online · Jan 26, 2023

Sajid Javid describes ‘anger’ at Andrew Bridgen’s Holocaust tweet

Mr Bridgen lost the Conservative whip earlier this month for tweeting an article questioning the safety of the Covid vaccines.

The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2023

COVID booster vaccines: how a third dose may help vulnerable people 'level up' their immunity

COVID vaccines call our immune systems to action, generating antibodies which fight against any contact we have with the virus. Antibodies help to reduce the effects of an infection or even prevent it altogether. Scientists have estimated that vaccination has averted millions of COVID deaths worldwide.

The Conversation · Jan 26, 2023