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Japan Panel OKs Use of Pfizer’s XBB.1.5 Jab for Fall Vaccination Campaign
A Japanese health ministry panel on September 8 gave the nod to the use of Pfizer/BioNTech’s updated COVID-19 vaccines tailored to the Omicron XBB.1.5 variant for the fall-winter emergency inoculation program scheduled to be launched on September 20. In Japan,…
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