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FDA Aims To Be 'Nimble' On COVID-19 Vaccine Changes For Variants

The Food and Drug Administration is working on a playbook for how it could greenlight vaccine tweaks. Studies in hundreds of people, rather than tens of thousands, seem likely.

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Sydney Lupkin is the pharmaceuticals correspondent for NPR.