Today' s post will be very short. My newest--three years old--laptop is acting up again so I'm back to the wee bitty keyboard on the travel laptop, not the most pleasant place to type. I'm also working early voting until 7:00 pm today and won't feel like writing/typing when I get home.
An FDA advisory panel will vote today on whether a booster shot of the Moderna vaccine should be added. It is not at all clear that they will say it is. Moderna appears to be keeping antibody levels up longer than Pfizer. Tomorrow the panel will vote on a possible second shot or booster for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. They will also discuss but not vote on whether Pfizer boosters should be extended to people not in high-risk groups.
Should the advisory panel recommend boosters, the FDA will decide whether to follow that recommendation. A CDC advisory panel and the CDC itself would also need to approve any recommendation. Don't write the director out either. In the cases of the Pfizer booster, the CDC director overrode the agency's recommendation and added front-line people to the list of those eligible for boosters.
And so the pandemic continues.....
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