Food and Drug Administration advisers will meet Thursday to discuss the agency’s proposal to simplify the Covid vaccination schedule, making it similar to the yearly flu shot. The change would mean that most people could get the currently available booster, regardless of how many doses they received before that. Currently, everyone is required to complete a primary vaccination series before they can get a booster dose two months later. The FDA is proposing skipping that series, meaning that most unvaccinated people could go ahead and get the latest booster shot if they decided to get a Covid vaccine. |