Another new version of the COVID-19 vaccine will probably be coming this fall.The Food and Drug Administration바카라 게임 웹사이트�s committee of independent advisers voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend that the agency tell vaccine manufacturers to update the COVID-19 shots so they will be more effective against the JN.1 lineage of the coronavirus.The committee voted on the question, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�For the 2024-2025 Formula of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., does the committee recommend a monovalent JN.1-lineage vaccine composition?바카라 게임 웹사이트� All 16 of the advisers voted 바카라 게임 웹사이트�yes.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The decision now goes to the full FDA. If the agency agrees with its advisory committee, the new shot will be a monovalent vaccine, offering protection against one coronavirus variant. Some previous vaccines have been bivalent, meaning they were formulated to protect against two variants.There are a few virus variants in circulation now, but they are relatively similar.JN.1 and its descendants KP.2 and KP.3 are the versions of the virus that are most common in the U.S. right now, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The FDA told the advisory committee Wednesday that studies have shown that currently available COVID-19 vaccines appear to be less effective against the variants that are now in circulation.When manufacturers updated their vaccines last year to better match the variants that were in circulation then, it seemed to offer better protection. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Match does matter somewhat,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Dr. Jerry Weir, director of the Division of Viral Products in the Office of Vaccines Research and Review at the FDA바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.바카라 게임 웹사이트�JN.1 has continued to evolve, and it makes it somewhat difficult to pick the particular specific strain to be used바카라 게임 웹사이트� this year, he told the committee. Because of manufacturing timelines, experts have to make predictions now if they want a new vaccine for fall. This is what the FDA바카라 게임 웹사이트�s committee has done for the past couple of years, and 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I think it바카라 게임 웹사이트�s worked pretty well,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Weir said.COVID-19 cases are relatively low right now. Only 3% to 4% of people who are getting tested are positive for the virus, said Dr. Natalie Thornburg, acting chief of the Laboratory Branch of the Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC. By comparison, at the peak of the Omicron surge in late 2021, test positivity rates were at 30%.Hospitalization rates are also the lowest they have been since March 2020, Thornburg said.Many people have some protection against the disease through vaccination or because they바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve had COVID before.People who got the current COVID-19 vaccine 바카라 게임 웹사이트� which was updated last fall 바카라 게임 웹사이트� have protection from serious disease and death across all age groups, but as with past formulations, that protection wanes over time, Dr. Ruth Link-Gelles, vaccine effectiveness program lead with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told the committee.The advisers agreed that more people need to get updated vaccines. Only about 25% of adults have gotten the most recent shot, according to a presentation to the committee.In only the fall and winter months last season, COVID-19 sent more than half a million people in the U.S. to the hospital and killed 40,000, according to data presented at the meeting.The people most likely to get seriously ill or die were unvaccinated, Link-Gelles said, and among the children who were hospitalized, half had no underlying conditions.바카라 게임 웹사이트�This, I think, emphasizes the need for vaccination regardless of underlying condition, status or age,바카라 게임 웹사이트� she said.The COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers told the committee that they have done some work to prepare for the FDA바카라 게임 웹사이트�s decision on the composition of the vaccine. Animal and lab studies show that shots made by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and Novavax that target the JN.1 variant seem to work well and are safe, the companies said.Novavax said its updated shot would need to be the JN.1 version because its protein vaccine takes about six months to make, and that바카라 게임 웹사이트�s the version it has been working on. The company said it could get the shot to U.S. warehouses by August.Pfizer and Moderna바카라 게임 웹사이트�s mRNA vaccines can be developed more quickly, and those companies said they could have either a JN.1 shot or a KP.2 shot ready for fall. Moderna said it could supply the U.S. market by mid-August, and Pfizer said its shot could be immediately ready upon approval.The committee discussed but did not vote on whether the shot should match JN.1 or KP.2. Most of the members preferred JN.1 so Americans would have an option to get an mRNA vaccine or a more traditional protein-based vaccine.Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, told the committee that the FDA will take these recommendations into consideration as it makes its final choice.