Covid Strategy for Long Haul Needed, FDA Official Says https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-advisers-to-discuss-how-to-prepare-for-new-covid-19-variants-11649242800
A top U.S. health regulator said that asking people to frequently get Covid-19 boosters wasn’t sustainable because of vaccine fatigue and that authorities needed to develop a long-term strategy for protecting the public from the virus as it evolves.
Dr. Peter Marks, who heads the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccines division, said that last week’s authorization of a second booster dose for people 50 years and older and for people 12 and older with weakened immune systems was a stopgap.
“This is really trying to do the best we can with the knowledge we have at hand, which is something that we’ve had to do a fair amount of over the past two years as a public-health agency,” Dr. Marks on Wednesday told vaccine experts advising the agency.
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