Tag: COVID – 19 vaccines
Future access to COVID vaccinations could be limited because of a stricter FDA policy
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a directive saying that COVID-19 vaccines are “safe and effective” even if a person is at higher risk for contracting the virus. It added that people at low risk would be able to get vaccinated, while those at higher risk would be asked to get a booster shot.
Read MoreThe pioneers of vaccine invention won the medicine portion of the prize
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Katalin Karik and Drew Weissmann have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries that enabled the development of COVID-19 vaccines. “The ideas [that] she and Drew Weismanndeveloped were critical for the success of RNA vaccines,” said John Tregoning, a vaccine immunologist at Imperial College London, in a press statement for the UK Science Media Centre.
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