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Positive results from Pfizer and Moderna offer the strongest validation yet of researchers' approach to coronavirus vaccines, but critical questions remain.
OBSERVATION: Biologics can take a long time to develop but COVID vaccines have been in development for almost 50 years and novel approaches were used to develop these vaccines. Vaccines typically take 10 to 15 years to develop, test and release to the public. The coronavirus vaccines, however, took less than a year.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made changes to the emergency use authorisations (EUAs) of the Pfizer -BioNTech and Moderna bivalent mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. The latest amendment aims to simplify the vaccination schedule for most people. The changes mean that the current bivalent vaccines for the original and Omicron BA.4/BA.5
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