The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave its formal recommendation Thursday to update the available COVID-19 vaccines to protect against strains of the omicron variant.
FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Dr. Peter Marks said in a statement that the updated vaccines would be used as boosters this fall and winter in anticipation of future surges driven by the highly contagious variant and its subvariants.
The current composition of the available vaccines would remain unchanged for an initial vaccine series, Marks said, because the available vaccines still provide a broad amount of protection from the virus’ worst outcomes.
According to a study published in April in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, COVID vaccinations prevented an estimated 1.5 million cases, 72,000 hospitalizations and 19,000 deaths in California alone through mid-October 2021.
“As we move into the fall and winter, it is critical that we have safe and effective vaccine boosters that can provide protection against circulating and emerging variants to prevent the most severe consequences of COVID-19,” Marks said.
Marks noted that studies of vaccine effectiveness have found that protection begins to wane after a few months, necessitating the initial need for booster doses and the potential for variant-specific versions.
The available COVID-19 vaccines are currently fully approved or approved for emergency use for everyone aged 6 months or older.
Booster vaccine doses are also encouraged for everyone 5 years old or older, provided a vaccine recipient completed their initial vaccine series at least five months ago.
According to Marks, vaccine manufacturers have already submitted clinical trial data to the agency for a booster vaccine formulated against the BA.1 omicron variant.
The agency has asked manufacturers to also conduct clinical trials and submit data for the effectiveness of a vaccine formulated to combat the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants.
“In keeping with our commitment to transparency, the FDA will communicate future plans pertaining to the potential authorization or approval of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses with an omicron component,” Marks said.
FDA and transparency. Lol. That’s a good one!
No thanks, let Mikey try it.
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So which county will be first to mandate this new ‘vaccine’? My bets are on Santa Clara or contra costa.
And then what school district will mandate it for the disciples they are indoctrinating?
And the Supreme Court will probably uphold such a mandate, like they just did in New York. SCOTUS believes that your body is not your choice.
@94521
On the contrary, SCOTUS believes that your body is not THEIR choice, which is why it’s up to the people in each state to decide. If you don’t like the decisions made in your state, vote out the people that made those decisions, move, or just get used to it.
@94521: In the interest of accuracy, the court didn’t uphold the mandate but rather refused to hear the case.
Don’t want the vaccine? Don’t get it. You can always move or enjoy Doordash.
chuck
You are useless. I can’t even believe your low IQ can figure out how to post.
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Video interview with Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche about what’s coming and also at around the 40 minute mark the unavailability of serum antibody tests which I’ve mentioned many times before. They exist and were designed to be inexpensive and over-the-counter.
https://youtu.be/sqp4jUDhJRI
I tested positive for covid a couple of weeks ago and it was like having a cold. I’m unvaxxed and it wasn’t a big deal at all.
@ Anon~
Same for myself in March of this Year.
Well here’s all the proof we need that it was a hoax
@Russ Sayin: where did Anon or Roz claim it was a hoax? Got gaslight?
Thats me, I’m the only on this board who is locked in on it being a complete HOAX. You know democrats are dumb.
SCOTUS ruling applies to the FDA. They were just reduced to a consulting firm. Just like the CDC, CIA, FCC, EPA, FBI, IRS, and many many more. Congress can’t delegate making laws to unelected bureaucrats. Congress is the only people who pass laws. The power was just returned to the people. They did this to push their agendas and not be accountable. The people are waking up. We’re Making America Great
You can thank ULTRA MAGA
As my vaxxed friends are on their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th round of Covid, and me and my unvaxxed friends have only had it once, I think I’m going to go on record and say – “We told you so”
Big pharma gave you something that will require boosters for life to stay alive.
Stop with all this covid stuff
ALL of my vaxxed and 2nd or 3rd booster relatives are now always Sick……with strange new diagnosed auto immune issues.
Nothing to see here. And children have always had strokes and heart attacks!!!
Must be an interesting world these “officials” live in. We used to call it “science fiction”. Maybe they’ve watched one too many disaster movies. 🙄
No matter what the Democrats do, it’s still a Communist Chinese Bioweapon to me.
Hey chuckie, I’m pretty much with you on this. Wonder what Fauci thinks now.
This is all you need to know –
https://tinyurl.com/2p96vtuz
No thanks there is little reason for healthy people to take this shot or any boosters. There is a 98% survival rate all the people I know that are sick most multiple times are vaxxed. My family has done just fine following common sense not hysteria. Anybody interested can certainly have my families doses of this shot.
If you don’t want to take the vaccine or wear a mask, fine, and I’ll respect that. To openly mock it and belittle it is reprehensible. Idiots…
The WEF would like to cordially thank everybody who has complied with their illegal mandates and marched down to get a gene therapy injection! You are an important part of the experimental conversion of people into trans humans!
Thanks, your data and any suffering of side effects or lost loved ones will serve to perfect the science! Soon billionaires all over the global liberal order will have many new gene based therapies to choose from and they will be assured that a proper large scale trial has been completed before any medical procedures touch their precious bodies.
Say hello to the new vaccine, same as the old vaccine… you can get on your knees and pray “we don’t get fooled again”, but after having had the two-dose shot plus booster, I’m done with pandemonium.