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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

ACIP, CDC Recommend Bivalent COVID-19 Boosters to Replace Monovalent Boosters

By Marie Rosenthal

Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition

In two votes, one for the Moderna and the other for the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent boosters, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted overwhelmingly—if somewhat reluctantly—to recommend the use of the bivalent COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) boosters to replace the monovalent boosters. The FDA had granted an emergency use authorization for the bivalent