The decision comes as cases start to tick up again.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized a second booster dose of the Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for people over 50 or who are immunocompromised, the agencyThe decision comes as the United States heads into yet another wave of infections, this time driven by an even more transmissible version of the omicron variant of the virus.
The FDA said in aOnce again, the FDA isas the foundation for its decision-making around COVID-19 vaccines — in this case, data from Israel, which found a lower rate of serious illness and death in older adults who had two boosters compared with just one.
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