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Sept 23 (Reuters) – Updated COVID-19 boosters have brought 4. 4 million guns into the United States since a new revaccination campaign began 3 weeks ago, according to government data, a slower speed for firing aimed at the Omicron variant of the coronavirus than the deployment of last year’s first boosters.
The government said earlier this week it had shipped 25 million vaccines tailored to Omicron, most commonly from Pfizer/BioNTech.
Production of the refurbished Moderna plans has been slower because of what the U. S. Food and Drug Administration has been able to do so. The U. S. Department reported as quality control issues at a contract production facility managed by Catalent Inc.
The FDA said Tuesday it has some vaccines from that plant.
Last year, when the U. S. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration allowed COVID boosters for the elderly and immunocompromised for the first time, only about 10 million gained their third shot in the first 3 weeks.
The latest data, released Thursday night through the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is released Thursday night. In the U. S. , they showed increased interest in Omicron injections to request older boosters over the past 3 weeks.
During the three weeks, about 930,000 more people received booster shots from older vaccines for others age 50 and older or at risk of serious illness, according to CDC data.
Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, said he expects demand for updated vaccines to be low, “as has been the case with recalls from the beginning. “
“I think it stems from a kind of poor message in how this revocation crusade and past revocation crusades have been handled, as political issues rather than focusing on spaces where the drivers are going to be beneficial,” he said.
This focus will be on high-risk populations and others over the age of 65, Adalja added.
The updated plans target the widely released BA. 4 and BA. 5 Omicron subvariants, as well as the original edition of the coronavirus included in all previous COVID vaccines.
Moderna generates new boosters for the older BA. 1 Omicron subvariant when the FDA asked them to change course to take over dominant variants lately for the U. S. market. U. S. and Bill Berkrot)