Updated COVID-19 Jab Recommended By FDA Panel

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Thursday recommended updating COVID-19 jabs this fall to target the “XFG variant.”

Eight out of nine panel members voted in favor of the recommendation, while one abstained.

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Eight out of nine panel members voted in favor of the recommendation, while one abstained.

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The recommendation — from the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee — is meant to help vaccine makers prepare shots for the fall and winter, when Covid infections typically rise.

Thursday’s meeting was the agency’s first since FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigned. (His resignation did not play a role; the meeting was already on the calendar before he resigned.) Makary drew criticism last