FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is shaking up the vaccine approval process, demanding rigorous, placebo-controlled trials before greenlighting Novavax’s new COVID-19 shot. Rejecting outdated 2021 data that ignored natural immunity, Makary—alongside Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg—is pushing the industry to reexamine assumptions, including whether healthy children really need more COVID vaccines.

AIR DATE: May 1, 2025