{"id":137033,"date":"2022-03-17T22:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T05:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/moderna-seeks-fda-authorization-for-4th-dose-of-covid-shot"},"modified":"2022-03-17T22:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T05:03:41","slug":"moderna-seeks-fda-authorization-for-4th-dose-of-covid-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/moderna-seeks-fda-authorization-for-4th-dose-of-covid-shot","title":{"rendered":"Moderna seeks FDA authorization for 4th dose of COVID shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moderna-seeks-fda-authorization-for-4th-dose-of-covid-shot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Drugmaker Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to authorize a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for all adults.<\/p>\n<p>The request is broader than rival pharmaceutical company Pfizer\u2019s request earlier this week for the regulator to approve a booster shot for all seniors.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the company said its request for approval for all adults was made \u201cto provide flexibility\u201d to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and medical providers to determine the \u201cappropriate use\u201d of a second booster dose of the mRNA vaccine, \u201cincluding for those at higher risk of COVID-19 due to age or comorbidities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Drugmaker Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to authorize a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for all adults. The request is broader than rival pharmaceutical company Pfizer\u2019s request earlier this week for the regulator to approve a booster shot for all seniors. In a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}