Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Booster US FDA Panel Nod Driven By Pragmatism
Executive Summary
Despite lack of enthusiasm with immunobridging study data, the panel endorsed emergency use in certain at-risk populations, in part because it would be hard to turn down the Moderna booster when an identical EUA had been issued for Pfizer/BioNTech's mRNA vaccine.
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