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FDA official restricted COVID vaccine approvals against staff advice
The new memos from the Food and Drug Administration show how the agency’s vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, personally ...
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RFK Jr. Influence Evident As Vaccine Chief Overrules Scientists, Limits COVID-19 Vaccine Approval
FDA vaccine head Vinay Prasad restricted Moderna and Novavax COVID vaccines to high-risk groups, overriding staff advice amid ...
Top FDA vaccine official rejected broad use of Covid-19 shots, documents show
The US Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official overrode agency experts in May to recommend against the broad use ...
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Multicomponent Vaccine for COVID-19, Influenza Shows Promise in Phase 3 Trial
The multicomponent mRNA-1083 vaccine elicited noninferior immune responses in adult patients when compared with coadministered influenza and COVID-19 vaccines.
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Kennedy Follows RSV Recommendations of ACIP Members He Fired
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed the expanded use of RSV vaccines for people 50 through 59 years old who are ...
Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots
Records show that a top U.S. regulator rejected the recommendations of agency experts and limited the use of Covid vaccines.
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Moderna’s New Lower-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Approved by FDA
This is the same limited use the FDA set in licensing the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine last month. This fall, Moderna anticipates offering both Spikevax and mNexspike as COVID-19 vaccines.