When will the FDA approve the Moderna booster vaccine for people 65 and older?

[duforsure]

Are they getting close? Anyone heard anything on it.

[Lochloosa]

1. If you are asking about the booster, find out who has it.

CVS etc. Make an appointment and go get your shot.

I got mine Tuesday.

[duforsure]

2. Went to a Walmart and they wouldn't give it to me,

Said had to have certain issues like have a organ transplant, or only a few other specific health conditions. Immune compromised, which i am but my conditions were not on their list, and yes it was for a booster as its been close to 8 months since my last one.

[Lochloosa]

10. I received the full dose from Winn Dixie's pharmacy here in FL. There is another option.

Just go in and act like you are getting your first dose. There is not a national data base on who has had the vaccine, so there is no way for them to tell.

It's fudging, but if I had your health issues, I would do it.

My pharmacist came right out and offered it to me and I jumped at the chance.

[brucefan]

3. Not Moderna.

Right now only Pfizer is available for boosters. Moderna is not FDA approved yet.

[duforsure]

4. Yes for the booster,

And haven't herd anything when it could be getting approved.

[hlthe2b]

5. Moderna (& J&J) have NOT been approved for 3rd dose. FDA is looking at data that shows

that with Moderna, specifically, a booster dose may need to be lower dose. I will try to find a non-medical journal article on it. This is because Moderna's primary doses were much higher strength than that in the Pfizer vaccine, the former conferring longer term, and higher antibody levels, but potentially more reactogenic on subsequent doses. The FDA is meeting Oct 14 and 15 to consider booster recommendations for Moderna AND J&J.



On edit, here:
FDA Leans Toward Authorizing Moderna Booster at a Half Dose
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-29/fda-leans-toward-authorizing-moderna-booster-at-a-half-dose

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I got bot of my Moderna vaccine shots at CVS, but I haven't heard of them offering boosters yet

Last I heard, it would likely be this fall, but only for those with compromising conditions like the Pfizer. I also heard it might also contain the flu vaccine which would certainly be convenient.

[gab13by13]

19. If that's the case I'm passing on the 3rd shot,

I'm not getting both shots together.

[LisaL]

22. It won't contain the flu vaccine.

Moderna is developing a flu/covid vaccine combo, but that hasn't even been submitted for approval, and won't be for a while.

[Tomconroy]

7. The FDA advisory committee is meeting next

Week (Oct. 14 and 15) to consider Moderna and J&I boosters. Final approval could come this month.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/moderna-jj-booster-shots-when-the-fda-could-make-a-decision/2629046/

[snowybirdie]

8. Even if officially

Moderna isn't approved for boosters, we went on line, truthfully answered a few questions, made a same day appointment at CVS, and got our third Moderna shot. Feel fine and safe. Think about it. Since August, Moderna was available for immune suppressed people. Why not for older and chronically ill people now? Makes little sense to me. The bureaucrats are over thinking this one.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

9. Knew this would happen, got my Moderna booster a month ago, 6 month mark, over 65, no questions

Online appt, clicked 3rd Moderna, here's your appointment time, nothing on forms asked condition, pharmacy didnt ask, Publix

I asked my Dr, was taking predisone earlier, she said go for it, called pharmacist, he said no problem, you should be good to go.

Alrighty then

Same effects as first two, sore arm, tired, slight fever for a day, nothing else

[cyclonefence]

11. CVS actually offered me the Moderna booster, and I took it

I asked the pharmacist if he thought I should get the Pfizer booster even though I'd had the Moderna shots, and he told me he had Moderna booster shots. He said he could give me one of those, and I took it. I am immunocompromised and eager to have as much protection as I can get. I figure even if the FDA hasn't approved it yet, it's not going to hurt.

[retread]

13. Moderna's 1st two shots are 100 micrograms(compared to Pizer's 33). The booster Moderna

has tested and submitted for approval is 50 micrograms.

I wasn't aware they shipped boosters to pharmacies weeks in advance of approval?

Immunocompromised individuals in my area(at least to my knowledge) are getting the FULL 100 microgram shot as a 3rd shot "booster".

[LisaL]

14. Boosters are the same Moderna vaccine.

Either a full dose or a half dose can be removed from the same Moderna bottle.
Right now immuno compromised are getting the full dose. I already got my booster.

[retread]

17. So all I need to do is find a licensed pharmacist willing to give me an unauthorized 1/2 dose

of Moderna?

[LisaL]

18. They won't give you a half dose right now.

Immuno compromised are getting a full dose. I got a full dose booster.

[cyclonefence]

23. Interesting

Maybe the pharmacist just told me what I wanted to hear, shot me with saline, and sent me on my way!

[LisaL]

24. Moderna booster is approved for immunocompromised.

NT

[mgardener]

12. Pfizer booster

6 months between last shot and booster.
65 and older.
Immunocompromised for anyone else.
I got mine last week.

[retread]

15. Moderna's tested and submitted "booster" is 50 micrograms. I suspect anyone getting a Moderna

"booster" is actually getting a 100 microgram 3rd shot.

[LisaL]

16. Yes, it's a full dose right now.

That's what I got.

[Dave in VA]

20. Same here

Wife and I received the full dose 3rd injection in August, exactly 6 months after our second one.

[gab13by13]

21. I know the Moderna shot

now this is technical, is stronger than the Pfizer shot. I recently had my routine blood work done and asked that my Covid antibodies be tested. I was told that I have antibodies so there is no rush to go out and get a full dose of an unapproved vaccine booster.

How do people here say it, this is also technical, patience.