Tue Aug 30, 2022 – 8:40 pm EDT
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (LifeSiteNews) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to approve requests for approval from Pfizer and Moderna for their new COVID boosters after the companies asked the agency for approval last week despite not being tested on humans, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Journal noted that the FDA would usually look at a study showing that the vaccine in question would be both safe and effective, something that studies have shown the mRNA vaccines are not, and that the agency would instead be relying on data from trials conducted on mice, as well as data from current jabs and previous boosters.
In a Twitter thread released by FDA chair Dr. Robert Califf, he stated that “Real world evidence from the current mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which have been administered to millions of individuals, show us that the vaccines are safe.”
Bivalent and multivalent vaccines are very common and modifying a vaccine to include different virus strains often does not require a change in other ingredients. FDA has extensive experience with reviewing strain changes in vaccines, as is done with the annual flu
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