FDA Not Adding ‘Black Box’ Warning to COVID-19 Vaccines: Commissioner

The box is the highest level of warning.

Syringes filled with COVID-19 vaccine sit on a table at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic, in an undated file photograph. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The Food and Drug Administration is not adding “black box” warnings to COVID-19 vaccines, even though an agency center recommended it, FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said on Dec. 15

“When it comes to the ‘black box’ warning, we have no plans to put that on the COVID vaccine,” Makary said during an appearance on Bloomberg Television.