The US Food and Drug Administration’s independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted Tuesday to support recommending i
The US Food and Drug Administration’s independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted Tuesday to support recommending inclusion of an Omicron-specific component for a Covid 19 booster vaccine, reported CNN. Twenty-one voting members of the FDA’s independent committee voted on the matter: “Does the committee recommend inclusion of a SARS-CoV-2 Omicron component for Covid 19 booster vaccines in the United States?” Nineteen of the members voted yes, two voted no. “I voted in favor of Omicron because I think it’s important to broaden immunity,” said Dr. Wayne Marasco, a professor of medicine with the department of cancer immunology and virology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School. “I will say that I was pretty impressed today that we can do better. I think this is a step in the right direction, but we have to reevaluate this as we move forward,” he added, reported CNN.
The committee felt that a modified vaccine would offer broader protection to match the coronavirus strain that is in circulation now. Two Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, are now dominating transmission of Covid-19 in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This means that the Covid 19 vaccine people in the US will get in the future will be different. The committee does not determine how, and the committee was not asked to vote on what sublineage to include or whether the booster should be monovalent vaccine or a bivalent vaccine, which would include two strains. Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, arks noted that a bivalent vaccine targeting the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants seemed to be the preference of the committee, reported CNN.
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