Beyond mRNA: FDA’s Marks Calls For Platform Agnostic Search For Better COVID Vaccines

Marks opines on what sponsors would need to do to bring a ‘better’ vaccine to market in a NEJM interview. Meanwhile, CDC releases real world data on estimated bivalent booster efficacy.

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FDA’s Peter Marks says it would be a mistake to be ‘wedded’ to early COVID vaccine technology • Source: Shutterstock

A systematic, platform-agnostic search is needed to get new and improved COVID-19 vaccines that provide longer and broader immunity, US Food and Drug Administration’s Peter Marks urged in recent New England Journal of Medicine interview.

More work needs to be done to “keep ahead of the virus,” the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director said in the interview, citing concerns SARS-CoV-2 might eventually mutate in such a way that

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