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Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty Images Novavax on Wednesday said the Food and Drug Administration has put a hold on its application for a combination shot targeting Covid and influenza and a stand-alone flu vaccine, sending the company’s shares down sharply.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Novavax — Shares plunged more than 17% after the biotech company said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration put a clinical hold on its application for a Covid and influenza combination shot as well as a stand-alone flu vaccine.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
Subsequently, a combination shot containing a vaccine for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, was introduced in the 1940s.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Lots on vaccines this morning: Moderna says its combination shot for Covid and flu works well, and might help improve uptake in the broader population.
—Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 10 June 2024
And of all the vaccines to skip, the routine combination shot for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) is a headscratcher.
—Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
Today, Americans get one formula based on the original coronavirus strain that emerged in 2020 for their first two or three doses — and their latest booster is a combination shot made by Pfizer or Moderna that adds omicron protection.
—Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2023
The Food and Drug Administration will have to decide the exact recipe but expect a combination shot that adds protection against a version of the super-contagious Omicron variant to the original vaccine.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
The Food and Drug Administration will have to decide the exact recipe but expect a combination shot that adds protection against a version of the super-contagious omicron variant to the original vaccine.
—Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2022
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First Known Use
circa 1909, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of combination shot was
circa 1909
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“Combination shot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/combination%20shot. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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