Top vaccine expert with FDA and NIH warns healthy young people not to get COVID-19 booster: 'There's not clear evidence of benefit' versus risk

 On Aug. 31, the FDA granted emergency use authorizations of COVID-19 boosters from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech.

The bivalent version of the previous vaccines are for use as a single booster dose at least two months following primary or booster vaccination.

Moderna's mRNA booster shots are approved by the FDA for individuals 18 years of age or older, and the Pfizer-BioNTech version is authorized for those 12 or older.

Offit is advising healthy young people to skip the new booster shot.

During an appearance on CNN earlier this month, Offit said that those over 65, the immuno-compromised, and anyone with serious chronic health ailments could benefit from the boosters.

"You're asking people to get a new product for which there's no data," Offit also told CNN. "Mice data are not adequate to launch 100-plus-billion-dose effort." The booster shot was authorized by the FDA despite not having been tested on humans.

The FDA based the EUA authorization on the testing of mice, data from current COVID-19 vaccines, and earlier iterations of boosters. 

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