Future Covid Shots Need Broader Coverage, FDA Vaccine Head Says

Covid-19 vaccine makers need to focus on broadening the protection of their annual boosters down the line to optimize uptake of future shots, the FDA’s vaccine chief said Tuesday.

“We need to get to something that has a broader breadth of protection, probably first and foremost, and a longer duration of action,” Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration, said at the World Vaccine Congress. “Breadth is probably the most important thing because I think people will get an annual vaccine—if they think it’s going to protect them broadly.”

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