{"id":163345,"date":"2023-05-04T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/fda-approves-first-vaccine-for-rsv-a-moment-six-decades-in-the-making"},"modified":"2023-05-04T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:25:12","slug":"fda-approves-first-vaccine-for-rsv-a-moment-six-decades-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/fda-approves-first-vaccine-for-rsv-a-moment-six-decades-in-the-making","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves first vaccine for RSV, a moment six decades in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approves-first-vaccine-for-rsv-a-moment-six-decades-in-the-making.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a 60-year scientific quest, the world has its first vaccine to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV \u2013 and more are on the way.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/fda-approves-first-respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">US Food and Drug Administration<\/a> approved Arexvy, made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsk.com\/en-gb\/media\/press-releases\/us-fda-approves-gsk-s-arexvy-the-world-s-first-respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv-vaccine-for-older-adults\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">GSK<\/a>, which is designed to be given as a single shot to adults 60 and older.<\/p>\n<p>It could be available for seniors as soon as this fall, pending a recommendation for its use from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which next meets in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 60-year scientific quest, the world has its first vaccine to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV \u2013 and more are on the way. On Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved Arexvy, made by GSK, which is designed to be given as a single shot to adults 60 and older. It [\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-163345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163345","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=163345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}