FDA shortens time between initial vaccination with Moderna and a booster to five months, following the same change for Pfizer earlier this week
The US needs variant-specific coronavirus vaccines, former Biden health adviser saysRick Bright, a former health adviser to President Joe Biden, said on CNN’s New Day Friday that using all the tools available in the United States will help the country control the coronavirus in the same way as flu, but that updated versions of vaccines to match variants are needed.
He said the world has learned to live with influenza as a result of the tools we have to control it and"that's what we anticipate is going to happen with SARS-CoV-2." Bright said that the US has “amazingly sharp tools” and if they are used appropriately, as is laid out in the JAMA articles, then the coronavirus can be controlled in the same way as influenza.
“We need to harness the full power of those tools that we used to make the Johnson & Johnson and the Pfizer, Moderna vaccines, we need to sharpen those tools against the virus as it changes,” he said. “Right now, we’re seeing one arm of our immunity become weakened because the virus has changed. If we update our vaccines to match the Omicron variant, not only can we reestablish both arms of powerful immunity, but we can also be better prepared for the next change of the virus.
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