FDA, CDC rebuke Pfizer s plans for third COVID-19 shot
News 12 Staff
Updated on: Jul 10, 2021, 2:52am
The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in disagreement with Pfizer over plans for a third COVID-19 shot.
Pfizer says it s ramping up efforts to develop a third dose that it hopes will better protect people from variants, citing waning immunity from its coronavirus vaccine.
Pfizer says it would soon publish data about a booster and submit it to the FDA, European Medicines Agency and other regulators for emergency approval.
However, the FDA and CDC came forward together with a different take. They say Americans don t need boosters yet and that it s not up to companies alone to decide when they might be needed.
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