{"id":2912,"date":"2023-03-21T19:11:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T00:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:57:49","slug":"fda-may-authorize-additional-covid-19-booster-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/03\/21\/fda-may-authorize-additional-covid-19-booster-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA May Authorize Additional Covid-19 Booster Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/fda-may-authorize-additional-covid-19-booster-shots-c85c0672?mod=Searchresults_pos2&amp;page=1\">WSJ<\/a> Agency officials could make the decision on clearing another round for people at high risk within a few weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COVID-19 vaccines could mirror the flu-shot process\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/video-api.wsj.com\/api-video\/player\/v3\/iframe.html?guid=C1AAC9E3-BA6E-4E65-A3FF-4C0160BCFF63\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal health regulators are nearing a decision on whether to authorize a second round of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/story\/should-you-get-the-latest-covid-19-booster-shot-heres-what-to-know-3352a349?mod=article_inline\">Omicron-targeted booster shots<\/a>&nbsp;for the elderly and other people at high-risk of severe Covid-19, people familiar with the agency\u2019s deliberations said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food and Drug Administration officials could make the decision within a few weeks, the people said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subscription needed for full text of the article<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"N   Tfv m  W\">N   Tfv m  W<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ Agency officials could make the decision on clearing another round for people at high risk within a few weeks. Federal health regulators are nearing a decision on whether to authorize a second round of the&nbsp;Omicron-targeted booster shots&nbsp;for the elderly and other people at high-risk of severe Covid-19, people familiar with the agency\u2019s deliberations said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"@FDA may authorize additional #covid boosters @WSJ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-21-at-20.10.51.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","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=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11101,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/11101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}