Vaccines For COVID Variants Will Require Clinical Data, US FDA Says
Executive Summary
Safety and immunogenicity data may not be sufficient to get FDA authorization of COVID-19 vaccines against a variant, FDA’s Doran Fink says. For now, agency expects to see clinical data. Eventually, strain changes might be based on manufacturing information.
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