Moderna says it s working on Covid booster shot for variant in South Africa, says current vaccine provides some protection
CNBC 1/25/2021 Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Moderna said it s accelerating work on a Covid-19 booster shot to guard against the recently discovered variant in South Africa.
The company s researchers said its current coronavirus vaccine appears to work against the two highly transmissible strains found in the U.K. and South Africa, although it looks like it may be less effective against the latter.
Moderna CEO on developing booster shots for South African Covid strain
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Moderna said Monday it s accelerating work on a Covid-19 booster shot to guard against the recently discovered variant in South Africa.
As California struggles to get potentially life-saving vaccines into as many arms as possible, concern is mounting that the rapid spread of multiple, highly contagious variants of the coronavirus around the world could lead to another, perhaps deadlier surge. So far there is no evidence that any of the more contagious variants are spreading widely in the United States, though at least one a variant that took off in the United Kingdom has.