Tracking the FDA advisory panel meeting on Covid-19 booster shots
Do most Americans already need Covid-19 booster shots, or at least will they soon? Those questions have been hotly debated in the public square over the past few weeks. But today, they’ll be debated in a formal setting where the discussion may affect whether the Biden administration carries through on an announced plan to offer adults booster jabs several months after they received their second shot of vaccine.
The debate will play out among members of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine expert panel, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, which is meeting to review an application from Pfizer and BioNTech for a third dose of their messenger RNA vaccine, to be given six months after the second dose. While today’s discussion relates specifically to the Pfizer vaccine, it has implications for the future of boosters in general in this country.
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