Prognosis
FDA Advisers Set to Consider One-and-Done Annual Covid Booster Plan
- Agency looking for annual shot effort similar to flu
- Top coronavirus shot makers Pfizer and Moderna to present
Healthy adults would receive one Covid shot each fall in the FDA plan.
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US health officials would like to get the frequency of Covid-19 shots down to just one a year and on Thursday, they began discussing how to do that.
The message has come through loud and clear that Americans have already had enough of frequent Covid shots. Food and Drug Administration advisers are meeting to discuss issues such as which strains of coronavirus would be in an annual vaccine, and how they would be chosen.