Higher dose or adjuvanted seasonal flu vaccines – Fluzone, Fluad and Flubok – provide benefit over other vaccines for older adults, advisory committee concludes. Merck’s PCV15 pneumococcal vaccine and GSK’s Priorix MMR vaccine are recommended for pediatric use by ACIP.

In new twist on debate over ‘dangling’ accelerated approvals, Sanofi wants Fluad label to reflect failure of confirmatory trial to meet primary efficacy endpoint; Seqirus says Sanofi is trying to interfere with ACIP’s possible preferential recommendation of enhanced seasonal flu vaccines in elderly.

The French drug maker isn’t moving its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine into Phase III, instead focusing on a GSK-partnered protein SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and applying mRNA technology elsewhere.

Gennova Biopharma’s mRNA ambitions are taking wing as its HDT Bio-partnered self-amplifying vaccine moves to Phase II. Notably, the company will have to prove superiority to AstraZeneca/Serum Institute’s Covishield in what appears to be the first comparative study for a COVID-19 vaccine candidate in India, Scrip learns.