{"id":10142,"date":"2025-08-27T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:27:35","slug":"fda-approves-updated-covid-vaccines-with-restrictions-on-who-can-receive-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/27\/fda-approves-updated-covid-vaccines-with-restrictions-on-who-can-receive-them\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves updated COVID vaccines with restrictions on who can receive them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/fda-approves-updated-covid-vaccines-restrictions-receive\/story?id=125032817\">ABC<\/a> The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for some Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for use in adults aged 65 and older and for those between ages 5 and 64 with at least one underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250822994391\/en\/Pfizer-and-BioNTechs-COMIRNATY-Receives-U.S.-FDA-Approval-for-Adults-65-and-Older-and-Individuals-Ages-5-through-64-at-Increased-Risk-for-Severe-COVID-19\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"press release, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>, the companies said their 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine will target a sublineage known as LP.8.1, an offshoot of the JN.1 subvariant, in line with FDA guidance to more closely match circulating strains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These vaccines are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors,&#8221; Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a post on X. &#8220;The American people demanded science, safety, and common sense. This framework delivers all three.&#8221;<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"MejxS ncXGHz\"><!-- MejxS ncXGHz --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for some Americans. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for use in adults aged 65 and older and for those between ages 5 and 64 with at least one underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe COVID. In a&nbsp;press release, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10143,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/10143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}