STAT's @helenbranswell and @matthewherper are tracking today's meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and ...

Federal regulators are one step closer to simplifying the COVID-19 vaccine process by standardizing the vaccine formula for ...

A panel of experts on Thursday agreed that the bivalent COVID-19 vaccines should be used as both initial and booster shots, ...

The expert panel voted on Thursday to recommend replacing the primary Covid-19 vaccine series with the BA.4/5 bivalent shot.

A panel of independent experts that advises the Food and Drug Administration on vaccines has backed a proposal to use the ...

The FDA published a road map for the future ... The expert panel will vote on whether to make all Covid vaccines in the U.S. bivalent shots, meaning they protect against both the omicron BA.

The FDA is also considering making the shots interchangeable. That way people wouldn't have to worry which brand they're getting. Again, the change is aimed at making COVID shots more like the flu ...

The expert panel agreed it was time to use the same strain in both the primary and booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

would be used for all Covid vaccine doses, and not just as boosters. Last month, the European Medicines Agency regulator said the bivalent shots can be used as primary vaccinations. The FDA has ...

While FDA officials said most people will likely only need one annual dose of a COVID-19 vaccine ... supports the use of the bivalent booster, administration of the shots has been “associated ...

That could include streamlining the vaccine composition, immunization schedules, and periodic updates of Covid-19 vaccines. The FDA ... primary shots and target only one strain -- and bivalent ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA ... shots in a series. Under current FDA guidance, the updated bivalent boosters are authorized for individuals who have completed their primary COVID ...