FDA says don’t mess with dosing schedules for COVID vaccines

FDA has come down squarely on the side of evidence-based medicine, and conservative policy, regarding vaccine dosing, countering proposals that have been floated to reduce or spread out vaccine doses to make supplies go further.

In a statement issued Jan. 4, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn and Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), said the agency wants to “remind the public about the importance of receiving COVID-19 vaccines according to how they’ve been authorized by the FDA” to achieve the level of protection in the clinical trials that supported their emergency use authorization...