The vaccine, the only nasal spray option against flu, has been on the market in the United States since 2003. But, if approved, it would be the first flu vaccine cleared for self-administration.
The vaccine, the only nasal spray option against flu, has been on the market in the United States since 2003. AstraZeneca has asked the FDA to allow adults ages 18 to 49 to be able to give themselves the vaccine, or to give it to children as young as age 2, citing a "usability study" showing people can do it properly without a health care provider present. If approved, it would be the first flu vaccine cleared for self-administration.
"One of the things we've learned from the pandemic is that actually people can do things for themselves, they can take maybe more responsibility for their own health care in their own hands than perhaps we realized or even thought possible," Glasser, AstraZeneca's head of US medical affairs, vaccines and immune therapies, said in an interview.During the COVID-19 pandemic, she noted, "We put nasal swab tests in people's hands and they used them successfully.
"If this would increase compliance, that would be fantastic," Dr. Aaron Glatt, chief of infectious diseases and hospital epidemiologist at Mount Sinai South Nassau, told CNN. FluMist uses a live, weakened version of the influenza virus to provide protection against the flu, while injectable versions use different technology - either killed viruses or proteins to train the immune system to fight off the virus. AstraZeneca says FluMist has shown to be as effective as other flu vaccines.
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