FDA Vaccine Adviser Suggests Young Healthy People Shouldn’t Get Latest COVID Booster

FDA Vaccine Adviser Suggests Young Healthy People Shouldn’t Get Latest COVID Booster
A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 25, 2021. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
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An adviser to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during an interview advised young people not to receive the recently approved bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster doses due to a lack of human testing.

Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, told CNN this weekend that he isn’t convinced that the new Omicron subvariant-specific boosters will provide any benefit to healthy, younger adults.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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