{"id":7544,"date":"2024-09-03T19:08:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7544"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:08:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:08:52","slug":"fda-oks-updated-novavax-covid-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/03\/fda-oks-updated-novavax-covid-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA OKs Updated Novavax COVID Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/covid19vaccine\/111775?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2024-09-03&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202024-09-03&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">MedPageToday<\/a> The FDA granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/fda-authorizes-updated-novavax-covid-19-vaccine-better-protect-against-currently-circulating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">updated Novavax COVID-19 vaccine<\/a>\u00a0to protect against hospitalization and death from circulating variants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protein-based shot represents a non-mRNA option for the 2024-2025 season, and follows the agency&#8217;s recent approvals and authorizations of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/covid19vaccine\/111626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">updated Moderna (Spikevax) and Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) vaccines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The COVID-19 vaccines have had a tremendous positive impact on public health and vaccination continues to be the most effective method for COVID-19 prevention,&#8221; said Peter Marks, MD, PhD, director of the FDA&#8217;s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research in the announcement.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday The FDA granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for an\u00a0updated Novavax COVID-19 vaccine\u00a0to protect against hospitalization and death from circulating variants. The protein-based shot represents a non-mRNA option for the 2024-2025 season, and follows the agency&#8217;s recent approvals and authorizations of the\u00a0updated Moderna (Spikevax) and Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) vaccines &#8220;The COVID-19 vaccines have had a tremendous [&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-7544","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\/7544","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=7544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7545,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544\/revisions\/7545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}