However, because the FLiRT variants are relatively new, there isn’t enough data to show whether the vaccine or immunity from a recent case of COVID will provide effective protection against them. Speaking with TODAY, Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbil...
The CDC has not made any changes to its current vaccine recommendations, which werelast updatedin April. But the emergence of these new JN.1 variant descendants like KP.2 might affect what vaccine the FDA picks out for this coming fall and winter. Most Americans remain eligible to get at l...
“It’s this confluence of a much more infectious variant on top of folks’ overall immunity having waned — either from natural or vaccine-induced immunity,” Hudson said. “It’s just kind of come [as] a perfect storm.” Advertisement This summer’s wave is sha...
Next month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's vaccines advisory committee will meet to discuss recommendations for the variant mix for this winter's Covid-19 vaccine, havingpostponedan earlier discussion to collect more data.
Variants KP.2 and KP.3, referred to as FLiRT variants because of specific mutations on their spike proteins, now account for more than 47% of new cases.1 “These variants are descendants of the JN.1 variant, so we expect a vaccine targeted at JN.1 to offer protection against the FLiRT...
It's possible that even folks who got the latest COVID vaccine aren't well-protected against JN.1 or the FLiRT variants: Onepreprintstudy released this week from researchers at Harvard University suggests waning effectiveness against those strains. That study has not been peer-reviewed, however....
New COVID-19 omicron subvariant spreads rapidly across the country Boston University researchers claim to have developed new, more lethal COVID strain in lab COVID omicron vaccine: US reaches deal with Moderna for winter booster shots NIH: COVID-19 booster-induced antibody response to omicron sig...
A new Omicron subvariant is in town, too, with KP.3.1.1 accounting for 28% of infections nationwide in the two-week period ended Aug. 3. Not to mention, the updated COVID vaccine isn’t yet available. How, then, can you keep your...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday urged all pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine as hospitals in hot spots around the U.S. saw disturbing numbers of unvaccinated mothers-to-be seriously ill with the virus. ...
The rates of long COVID dropped over time, regardless of whether people were vaccinated, but the researchers said that was likely due to a combination of changes in the virus and other factors. Overall, the researchers found that the vaccine was responsible for nearly 72% of the drop in cas...