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US BPOM Approves Covid-19 Booster Vaccines with Different Brands

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to allow the use of booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine under a different brand from the one previously used.

Quotes Straits Times, This step was taken after seeing the antibodies of single-dose recipients of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) who received the Moderna booster increase 76 times in 15 days. This encourages vaccine recipients to be given different booster doses.

“If you look at the data, it looks better,” said Dr Paul Offit, director of the Center for Vaccine Education at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “I think we have to move quickly because this is already happening.”

The plan, this policy will be discussed with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday. This is necessary for the FDA to be able to issue a permit for this use.

J&J last month said that its vaccine booster injection was 94% effective against Covid-19. The vaccine, which should be injected only once, is said to be stronger if it is fortified with a booster injection. The booster increases antibody levels four to six times compared to a single injection.

President Joe Biden’s administration announced plans last month to roll out booster injections for people receiving the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. The FDA’s advisory committee last week recommended Pfizer booster injections to people 65 years of age and older.

Even so, this booster injection was opposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO Secretary General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that booster vaccines only create vaccine scarcity which makes it difficult for several countries that do not yet have sufficient vaccines to accelerate their programs in dealing with the pandemic.

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