The recommendation will take effect as soon as the new vaccines from Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer become available later this year, the CDC said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked vaccine manufacturers earlier this month to update the new shots to target the K...
SARS-CoV-2 Delta variantSARS-CoV-2 Omicron variantSARS-CoV-2BREAKTHROUGH infectionsThe article offers information on the BA.2.86, a highly mutated SARSCoV-2 variant, and suggests that updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting the XBB.1.5 variant are likely to be effective i...
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FILE PHOTO: People wait to take coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests at a pop-up testing site in New York City, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo (Reuters) - The BA.5 subvariant of Omicron was estimated to make up 81.9% of the circulating coronav...
Based on currently available data, updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting the XBB.1.5 variant are expected to be effective against BA.2.86—a highly mutated
Theomicron variantof COVID-19 is spreading with such astounding speed that it now accounts for an estimated 95.4% of all cases in the United States, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That incredible figure comes from the CDC’s...
The updated shots are monovalent, or single-target vaccines, aimed at what is called the XBB.1.5 variant, as requested by the FDA. Deaths are relatively low in the United States - reported at around 2,000 last month - though the US has experienced 1.1 million COVID deaths since the outse...
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