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Two Outgoing FDA Scientists, Other Experts: Vaccines Remain Effective, Boosters Not Needed For General Public Right Now

Eric Quintanar
Two Outgoing FDA Scientists, Other Experts: Vaccines Remain Effective, Boosters Not Needed For General Public Right Now
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A group of over a dozen experts, including two FDA vaccine officials who will be stepping down from their posts later this year, wrote in a paper published on Monday that current evidence does not support providing COVID-19 booster shots for the general public. 

The paper, published in the medical journal Lancet, comes ahead of a high-profile Food and Drug Administration meeting, where an advisory panel will review Pfizer data and consider whether to recommend a booster for members of the public who have already been fully inoculated. 

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