Fri Sep 23, 2022 – 10:30 am EDT
(Meryl Nass) — On August 31, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued emergency use authorizations (EUA) for new Pfizer and Moderna mRNA booster vaccines for COVID. The next day, September 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) director and advisory committee approved the immediate rollout of the new vaccines and have already commenced administration of the shots in the U.S.
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Surprisingly, more than a month before either agency had given its okay to the entirely new formulation, the federal government ordered 105 million doses from Pfizer and 66 million doses from Moderna.
The desired composition of the vaccine had only been formally determined by FDA after its advisory committee had met on June 24, 2022. The vaccines contain a mix of the old, original Wuhan strain vaccine mRNA (now also referred to as the ancestral vaccine) and a new omicron BA.4/5 mRNA coding for the omicron spike protein.
The total amount of mRNA for the Pfizer and Moderna booster vaccines is the same as before: 30 mcg for Pfizer and 50 mcg for Moderna. Each is composed of 50 percent
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