The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a pair of COVID-19 booster vaccines Wednesday that are specifically formulated to target the omicron variant of the virus and two of its most common subvariants.
The FDA amended its emergency use authorizations for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines to allow for the omicron-specific booster, which targets the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants while still protecting against the original COVID virus strain as well.
The Moderna booster will be available to adults while the Pfizer booster will be available to people ages 12 and older.
“As we head into fall and begin to spend more time indoors, we strongly encourage anyone who is eligible to consider receiving a booster dose with a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine to provide better protection against currently circulating variants,” FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said in a statement.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to also give its approval in the next week of the omicron-specific boosters, allowing their rollout by Labor Day.
According to the FDA, the new booster vaccines will be used for all future booster vaccinations and the original mRNA vaccines will only be authorized for an initial vaccine series going forward.
People will be eligible for one dose of the omicron-specific boosters if it has been at least two months since completing their initial vaccination series.
“The FDA has extensive experience with strain changes for annual influenza vaccines. We are confident in the evidence supporting these authorizations,” said Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “The public can be assured that a great deal of care has been taken by the FDA to ensure that these bivalent COVID-19 vaccines meet our rigorous safety, effectiveness and manufacturing quality standards for emergency use authorization.”
Tested on mice… You can have mine!!!
Tested in lab rats, and soon to be in guinea pigs/humans.
More garbage to enrich big pharma, the CDC, and the Bidens.
Excellent…
PASS
This booster has ONLY been tested in mice! It has not gone thru any clinical trials in humans. Google up “new booster only tested in mice” and you can read about it from many different news sources. I am not getting this booster anytime soon. I want to see what the effects will be in the people who get it first.
Omicron? Why shut the barn door now? The cows are long gone. Omicron was first detected in the U.S. nine months ago. Too little, too late. I’ll pass on this one, too, thanks.
Omicron ba.5 is currently the dominant variant and accounts for the great majority of Covid infections. It’s nice that we are finally getting an updated vaccine that targets the form of the virus that’s causing most
of the current Covid infections. It seems likely that breakthrough infections will be significantly less common with this updated vaccine. Yes, I will be getting my shot as soon as it shows up at my local pharmacy.
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RESIST ALL FURTHER COVID “VACCINES”.
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FAKE, FAKE, FAKE.
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These formulations are not “vaccines”.
NOPE
Blah, Blah blah!!!
Extensive experience in diseases …. Just cause you have a lot does not make your right. Used to trust the FDA, knowing they had made many mistakes, but their fast approval of experimental drugs and their willingness to allow the drug companies to hide their results for 75 years leaves as sour taste in my mouth.
I’m more scared of long-covid (which is very real) than the jabs, so I’ll get mine. To each their own. I respect those who don’t jab.
Only an idiot would put this junk in their body. According to Yale Medicine, “The original Omicron strain has a relatively mild version of the virus…” so wny is a “vaccine” even needed?
People have lost their minds.
Tested in mice only? I can’t believe inmates were not tested as well. Inmates are perfect controlled confined environment “lab rats” to do all testing on.
The SCAMdemic continues!
NoThanks. I’ll pass.
Nope
When the WEF turns you into a “ transhuman” you will receive regular gene therapy injections just like Microsoft sends out software updates! Of course they will overcharge the gov or your insurance but hey it’s “ their democracy” and “ they won” right ? This is the concept of an economic rent. A guaranteed income stream created by gov mandate. This is how billionaires in the “ new normal” will be supporting themselves.
Sort of amused by all of the antiestablishment comments on Claycord. I bet none of us think we are semi Fascists. What can you do when you are governed by demented people though. You have to speak out about their garbage. Take a booster only tested on eight lab rats? They are crazy.