F.D.A. Poised to Limit Entry to Covid Vaccines

The Meals and Drug Administration will allow use of Covid vaccines by adults over 65 and people with sure medical circumstances within the fall, however would require further research earlier than approving the pictures for wholesome People youthful than 65, company officers stated on Tuesday.

At this level, the extra doses provide “unsure” advantages to many younger and middle-aged individuals who have already been vaccinated or have had Covid, Dr. Vinay Prasad, the F.D.A.’s vaccine division chief, and Dr. Martin Makary, the company’s commissioner, wrote in The New England Journal of Medication.

“The F.D.A. will approve vaccines for high-risk individuals and, on the identical time, demand sturdy, gold-standard knowledge on individuals at low threat,” the officers wrote.

Till now, annual Covid pictures have been really helpful for everybody aged 6 months and older. Scientific advisers to the F.D.A. are set to fulfill Thursday to determine on the composition of the Covid vaccine to be made accessible within the fall.

Throughout the pandemic, each Dr. Prasad and Dr. Makary sharply criticized vaccine mandates and different public well being measures supposed to show again the coronavirus.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the well being secretary, is a longtime vaccine skeptic who spent years campaigning towards the Covid pictures, falsely claiming at one level that the Covid vaccines had killed extra folks than the virus.