{"id":77986,"date":"2026-08-27T20:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/fda-approves-updated-covid-19-vaccines-for-dominant-xfg-variant\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:56:30","slug":"fda-approves-updated-covid-19-vaccines-for-dominant-xfg-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/fda-approves-updated-covid-19-vaccines-for-dominant-xfg-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves updated Covid-19 vaccines for dominant XFG variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision allows manufacturers to begin shipping doses, but confusion remains about insurance coverage<\/p>\n<p>The US Food and Drug Administration approved updated Covid-19 vaccines on Thursday, allowing manufacturers to begin shipping doses to pharmacies and doctors\u2019 offices across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA approved Moderna, Novavax-Sanofi and Pfizer-BioNTech\u2019s updated Covid vaccines, the companies \u2060said on Thursday, \u2060after \u200ban advisory panel recommended that the shots should target \u2060the dominant XFG variant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/27\/fda-approves-updated-covid-19-vaccines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision allows manufacturers to begin shipping doses, but confusion remains about insurance coverage The US Food and Drug Administration approved updated Covid-19 vaccines on Thursday, allowing manufacturers to begin shipping doses to pharmacies and doctors\u2019 offices across the country. The FDA approved Moderna, Novavax-Sanofi and Pfizer-BioNTech\u2019s updated Covid vaccines, the companies \u2060said on Thursday, \u2060after &#8230; <a title=\"FDA approves updated Covid-19 vaccines for dominant XFG variant\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/fda-approves-updated-covid-19-vaccines-for-dominant-xfg-variant\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FDA approves updated Covid-19 vaccines for dominant XFG variant\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}