The United States’ Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorised the use of booster shots of Covid-19 vaccines developed by Moderna...
The United States’ Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorised the use of booster shots of Covid-19 vaccines developed by Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. The agency also allowed mixing and matching of booster doses.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention will consult an expert panel later this week before finalising these recommendations, reported AP.
The FDA said that beneficiaries of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine who are aged 65 years and older or are adults at high risk of severe infection because of their health conditions or jobs can get the booster shot. They can get the booster jab six months after completing their initial vaccination.
The health agency authorised the booster jab after studying the immune response of 149 adults participants from clinical trials who received a booster dose at least six months after their second dose and compared to that of 1,055 participants who just received the primary two jabs.
The study showed that the participants who got the booster shot had a better antibody response 29 days after receiving the extra jab.
A safety study on 171 adults participants who got the booster shot showed that the most common side effects were pain at the injection site, tiredness, headache, muscle and joint pain, chills, swollen lymph nodes in same...
