Modified COVID Vaccines: FDA Shifts To Superiority Standard For Immune Response To Variants
Executive Summary
Updated guidance says variant-directed vaccines should demonstrate statistically superiority to the prototype vaccine in a comparison of geometric mean titers against the particular variant of concern; seroresponse rates can be assessed on the basis of either noninferiority or superiority.
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