FDA could consider making COVID-19 vaccine like flu shot

A Baltimore doctor explained what a Food and Drug Administration panel of experts is considering when it comes to the future of COVID-19 vaccines. The FDA is examining how to simplify the COVID-19 vaccine schedule, perhaps making it like an annual flu shot. Dr. Esti Schabelman, the chief medical officer at Sinai Hospital in northwest Baltimore, explained that one of the issues the FDA is trying to figure out involves first shots. Currently, the first shots people get teach the immune system to fight off the original version of the virus, which emerged in 2019.