‘The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve new COVID-19 booster shots this week — before the vaccines are tested on humans, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal.
The new boosters are similar to the COVID vaccines currently available in the US with minor modifications that protect recipients from the latest version of the Omicron variant.
Instead of waiting on data from testing in humans, the agency will use data from trials in mice — as well as the real world evidence of the safety of currently available COVID vaccines and test results from earlier iterations of boosters targeting older strains to evaluate the newest boosters, FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said.’
Latest COVID booster shots will be released before human testing is complete https://t.co/XFpxBspm7B pic.twitter.com/fMVDBlaoBC
— New York Post (@nypost) August 29, 2022
#Moderna’s internal documents regarding their #COVID19 vaccine trials—obtained via a FOIA request by @JudicialWatch—show that most of their studies submitted for approval to the #FDA were “irrelevant” and did not follow Good Laboratory Practices. https://t.co/XkGenBhSZK
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) August 28, 2022