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

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

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.

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

The CDC and FDA announced on Friday that their surveillance system flagged a possible link between the new Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent Covid-19 vaccine and strokes in people aged 65 and over ...

Future COVID-19 vaccines and boosters should be bivalent – meaning they’ll target older strains of the virus as well as the newer omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants – following a unanimous recommendation ...

The FDA published ... the agency's independent vaccine experts scheduled for Thursday. The expert panel will vote on whether to make all Covid vaccines in the U.S. bivalent shots, meaning they ...

That's followed at least two months later by a booster, currently the bivalent shot ... FDA is considering make a lot of sense." There's an intense debate about the wisdom of updating the COVID ...

A briefing document released Monday shows that the FDA is suggesting that health officials stop using the original COVID-19 vaccine and use only the bivalent vaccine for primary and booster doses.