FDA authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot for elderly/high risk….

Source: Politico | September 22, 2021 | Lauren Gardner and Adam Cancryn

FDA authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot for elderly, people at high risk of severe Covid-19

The move aligns with the recommendation the agency’s independent vaccine advisers made Friday.

The Food and Drug Administration authorized a booster dose Wednesday of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for people 65 and older and for certain high-risk adult populations.

The move aligns with the recommendation the agency’s independent vaccine advisers made Friday when they endorsed offering boosters to people at high risk of severe disease as well as those 65 and older at least six months after completion of the primary two-dose series.

The FDA authorization permits Pfizer boosters for anyone between the ages of 18 and 64 “whose frequent institutional or occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2 puts them at high risk of serious complications of COVID-19 including severe COVID-19.”

It notably excludes 16- and 17-year-olds — who Pfizer had included in its booster application to the agency — in an apparent nod to the lack of data on the safety of an additional dose for younger people. Pfizer’s and Moderna’s messenger RNA vaccines have been associated with rare cases of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, after vaccination. The side effect typically occurs in males 30 and younger.

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  • Consistent September 22, 2021 at 11:28 pm #50347

    EVERYDAY September 23, 2021 at 5:11 am #50349

    This process is taking forever. Either the government agencies want us old people to take the booster or they don’t. By the time the booster is authorized and the shots become available, it will be January. I am not going out in the cold to get the shot. I’ll wait till spring.

    And if the powers that be are worried about myocarditis in those under 30, why not hold off on boosters for all of them, rather than just teenagers?

    Consistent September 23, 2021 at 5:32 pm #50350

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