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243: George Scangos' retirement, annual Covid vaccines, an Alzheimer's drug rejection

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COVID Vaccines

The proposal is essentially that in June, the advisors would meet and they would be discussion about which strain should go into the vaccine. Now, that is a shorter timeline than for the flu. I think one of the advisors noted this morning that happens, you know, around February for flu but there are some issues with that because COVID is not flu. And so trying to guess in June what's going to be circulating in September is still a shorter timeline, but we don't have great ways of doing that.

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