WH Working With Vaccine Makers, FDA To Prepare For Omicron Variant

The White House is working with COVID-19 vaccine makers Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, and FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prepare for the quick development and authorization of COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots against the new Omicron variant, should the currently authorized shots prove to ineffective against the variant, which was identified last week in South Africa and quickly deemed a variant of concern by the World Health Organization. Should they be needed, President...