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Moderna and rival Pfizer on Wednesday said their updated Covid-19 vaccines generated strong responses in testing against the highly mutated BA.2.86 subvariant of the coronavirus that has raised fears of a resurgence of infections.
New data from scientists and vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech suggests a newer, highly mutated Covid-19 variant is not as alarming as some experts feared when it was first detected several weeks ago.
As concerning as this sounds, there’s good news. The new boosters should still protect against these newer subvariants because they are closely related.
Pharma group confident it will be effective against BA.2.86 subvariant
Becomes available in the third or fourth week of september, that is its projected timeframe, that we get people vaccinated. because that is a good match to what is circulating now. the eg.5, is closely related to it. if you get a boost with xpb you will get reasonably good protection. it may not be against a mild infection it will definitely be against severe disease. so do i worry? my worry is that people are going to feel cavalier that they do not want to be vaccinated. i've been in vaccinated, i've been boosted, i've been infected, in the third or fourth week of september we're going have a...