FDA Vaccine Chief Suggests It’s Time to Move on From mRNA COVID Vaccines

FDA Vaccine Chief Suggests It’s Time to Move on From mRNA COVID Vaccines
A medic prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Netanya, Israel on Jan. 5, 2022. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
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The head of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine division suggested that it may be time to move on from using mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

The two most commonly used vaccines—made by Pfizer and Moderna—use mRNA technology. Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine uses an adenovirus and Novavax’s shot, the most recently approved vaccine for COVID-19 in the United States, is protein-based and most similar to the common childhood vaccines.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
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