Wed Oct 26, 2022 – 5:07 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A top vaccination official with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) acknowledged in a recent interview that the prospect of continual booster shots to account for COVID-19 variants may well be unsustainable.
Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research, told Stat News that he “would be lying to you if [I said] it doesn’t keep me up at night worrying that there is a certain chance that we may have to deploy another booster — at least for a portion of the population, perhaps older individuals — before next September, October. I’m not saying that’s what’s going to happen, but it’s what keeps me up at night, because we see how fast this virus is evolving.”
“There are probably things that can be done to optimize sequences and optimize constructs that would hopefully lead to better mRNA vaccines,” Marks said, but “we need to look at other types of vaccines. And there are those out there that might provide more durable immunity.”
“I would love to see us have a very ecumenical look over all of the available vaccines and
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