Episode 1404 • • 21:36 - 23:58
1404: Flub Meister
Dr. Michael Osterholm, Retooling Vaccines for New Variants
Dr. Michael Osterholm discusses the technical process of "tuning up" or "retooling" vaccines to target the Omicron variant. He suggests the FDA may treat these updates as "strain changes" similar to the annual influenza vaccine process, which could take four months to implement.