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Diving brief:

• The Food and Drug Administration recommended Thursday the manufacturers of COVVI-19 vaccinators adapting their photos for the next fall and winter season to target the “JN.1” strain, ideally a subvariant known as the LP.8.1.
• The decision follows a vote of the FDA advisers approving the JN.1 line as a favorite target, similar to the previous year. Drugmakers Moderna and Pfizer said they were expecting to be able to update their shots on time and, Friday, Moderna submitted a request for targeting LP.8.1 to the FDA.
• However, vaccines are managed differently under the new FDA management. Commissioner Martin Makary and the senior Vinay Prasad vaccine recently established new approval standards, while Tuesday, Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Diving insight:

Kennedy, Makary and Prasad move quickly to reduce the hairstyle vaccine standards they supported have favored too wide use on too thin evidence.

“Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to get another boost despite the absence of clinical data to support the repeated recall standard in children,” Kennedy said on the social media platform X.

The removal of the cvored plans of the CDC vaccination calendar could mean that some insurers no longer cover vaccination in healthy children and pregnant women.

Kennedy’s announcement became before a scheduled meeting of CDC advisers next month, when the Expert Committee should vote on who should receive styled boosters.

The FDA will examine new boosting applications according to the new standards established by Makary and Prasad, which allow immune data to support authorizations in the elderly or in health risks, but require placebo -controlled evidence for wider OK in healthy adults and children.

During a recent meeting of an FDA advisory committee, the members of the panel wondered if the strain updates would rest in the new framework, which was potentially time until the boosters were widely available.

Jerry Weir, director of the Viral Product Division at the FDA Research and FDA exam, said that he was not sure at the Committee meeting on Thursday.

While the panel voted unanimously in favor of updating the shots to cover the JN.1 family, they debated the opportunity to recommend a more specific seam in LP.8.1. The World Health Organization and the European Agency on Medicines have both recently declared that monovalent fire targeting the JN.1 or KP.2 strains remain appropriate, but EMA vaccines prefer vaccines target LP.8.1.

The FDA adopts a similar approach. “On the basis of all evidence, the FDA advised manufacturers of approved COVID-19 vaccines which correspond more closely to SAR-COV-2 viruses in circulation, the COVVI-19 vaccines for use in the United States from the autumn vaccines 2025 should be monovalent JN.1-LINEAGE COVID-19 vaccines …

Regulators have recently granted complete Novavax covidal approval, but only in adults aged 65 or over, and in individuals between 12 and 64 years old who run a high risk of serious illness. During the meeting on Thursday, Novavax said that updating his shot to correspond to the LP.8.1 could be more difficult, by the FDA advice could give it a certain latitude.

In an email at Biopharma Dive on Tuesday, Novavax said that the company and its partner Sanofi intend to provide their cocovio shot for the coming season and assess the comments of regulatory organizations “and will provide an update on the selected strain as soon as possible.

The FDA did not give any information on the requirements of clinical trials or post-reception studies in its declaration on the selection of deformations.

Publisher’s note: This story has been updated with the comments of Novavax.