Ex-FDA Head: Booster Likely Protects Against Omicron

The Hill reports:

Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Sunday said vaccine developers have “a pretty good degree of confidence” that fully vaccinated individuals who have received a COVID-19 booster are protected against the omicron variant.

“The question here is going to be whether or not a fully boosted individual someone who’s had three doses of vaccine has good protection against this variant right now,” said Gottlieb, who now sits on Pfizer’s board of directors.

However, Gottlieb stressed that data on the omicron data is sparse, with no clinical studies or test tube studies having been completed.

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