Pfizer Covid vaccine boosters: FDA staff declines to take stance, citing unverified data

KEY POINTS

• The FDA staff declined to take a stance on whether to back booster shots of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, saying U.S. regulators haven’t verified all the available data.
• “Overall, data indicate that currently US-licensed or authorized COVID-19 vaccines still afford protection against severe COVID-19 disease and death in the United States,” they wrote in a 23-page document.
• The staff report is meant to brief the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which meets Friday to review Pfizer’s request to approve Covid booster doses for the general public.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/covid-booster-shots-fda-staff-declines-to-take-stance-on-pfizers-third-doses-citing-lack-of-verified-data.html