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# CDC Panel Backs Covid Booster Vaccines
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/cdc-panel-backs-covid-booster-vaccines/
- Published: 2021-10-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T17:19:45.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Biologics, #legacy-id-D5150421

CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices 10/21 voted to recommend accepting FDA’s 10/20 amended emergency use authorizations ([see earlier story](https://www.fdaweb.com/fda-allows-more-mixed-booster-vaccines/)) for booster doses of both Moderna and Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccines. FDA also authorized the use of any available Covid-19 vaccine as a heterologous (or “mix and match”) booster dose in eligible individuals following completion of primary vaccination with a different available Covid-19 vaccine.

The expanded booster EUAs and the mix and match booster option now head to CDC director **Rochelle Walensky**’s)desk to accept or modify the committee’s recommendation. The CDC will also issue clinical guidance outlining who should get boosters and how soon.