{"id":7423,"date":"2024-08-21T08:46:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2024-08-21T08:46:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:46:47","slug":"the-covid-19-summer-wave-is-so-big-the-fda-might-release-new-vaccines-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/21\/the-covid-19-summer-wave-is-so-big-the-fda-might-release-new-vaccines-early\/","title":{"rendered":"The Covid-19 Summer Wave Is So Big, the FDA Might Release New Vaccines Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/covid-summer-surge-fda-vaccine-approval\/\">Wired<\/a> With the US experiencing a relatively large summer wave of Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration is considering signing off on this year&#8217;s strain-matched Covid-19 vaccines as soon as this week,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/16\/health\/fda-updated-covid-19-vaccines\/index.html\">according to a report by CNN<\/a>&nbsp;that cited unnamed officials familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the FDA gave the green light for the 2023\u201324 Covid shots on September 11, close to the peak of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in that year&#8217;s summer wave. This year, the summer wave began earlier and, by some metrics, is peaking at much higher levels than in previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, wastewater detection of SARS-CoV-2 shows &#8220;very high&#8221; virus levels in 32 states and the District of Columbia. An additional 11 states are listed as having &#8220;high&#8221; levels. Looking at trends, the southern and western regions of the country are currently reporting SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater that rival the 2022\u201323 and 2023\u201324 winter waves, which both peaked at the very end of December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/covid-summer-surge-fda-vaccine-approval\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"pcoLfwM qn bpO\">pcoLfwM qn bpO<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired With the US experiencing a relatively large summer wave of Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration is considering signing off on this year&#8217;s strain-matched Covid-19 vaccines as soon as this week,&nbsp;according to a report by CNN&nbsp;that cited unnamed officials familiar with the matter. Last year, the FDA gave the green light for the 2023\u201324 [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"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\/7423","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=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7424,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions\/7424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}