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Pfizer submits application for updated COVID-19 vaccine booster to FDA

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FDA ordered vaccine makers to tweak their shots to target BA.4 and BA.5. If FDA quickly clears the combo shots, boosters could be offered within weeks. The U.S. has a contract to buy 105 million of the updated Pfizer doses. Britain a week ago became the first in the world to authorize a different update.

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NHK World

Pfizer, BioNTech ask FDA to certify updated COVID-19 vaccine

Drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech have applied to the US Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, for emergency use authorization of an updated coronavirus vaccine.

3 years ago·Tokyo, Japan

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The Epoch Times

Pfizer Seeks US Authorization of COVID-19 Boosters for Latest Omicron Variants

Pfizer and partner BioNTech announced they have submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize a COVID-19 vaccine booster that has been updated to target the newest Omicron subvariants. The request comes after the FDA in June advised COVID-19 vaccine makers to amend their shots to target the two Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, which are better than ever at dodging immunity from earlier vaccination or infection…

3 years ago·New York, United States

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WFAA 8abc

COVID vaccines for fall: Pfizer seeks OK of updated boosters

For now at least, the BA.5 omicron variant currently is causing nearly all COVID-19 infections in the U.S., and much of the world.

3 years ago·Dallas, United States

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WKYC

COVID vaccines for fall: Pfizer seeks OK of updated boosters

For now at least, the BA.5 omicron variant currently is causing nearly all COVID-19 infections in the U.S., and much of the world.

3 years ago·Cleveland, United States

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PBS NewsHour

News Wrap: Pfizer seeks FDA approval for new COVID vaccine targeting omicron subvariants

In our news wrap Monday, Pfizer asked the FDA to authorize a new COVID vaccine targeting omicron subvariants, Dr. Anthony Fauci will step down from his post in December, Russia blamed Ukraine for a deadly car bombing near Moscow, Pakistan police filed terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, flooding hits Texas, and the U.S. and South Korea kicked off military training drills.

3 years ago·Washington, United States

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