Page 2 - Target Omicron News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

They got three doses of the ancestral vaccine and the fourth dose would with the ancestral vaccine and the other vaccine, the ba.1. when you got that vaccine, did you have a clear and dramatic increase in neutralizing antibodies against the ba.1 strain? and they didn't. they have a 1.7% increase. while that's significant, but is unlikely to make a clinical impact. that's why we voted no. this vaccine that doesn't contain the ba.1 strain, but contains the ba.4 and ba.5, it will show people that they get a stronger response. the idea is the right one. you just need to prove it. >> the panel is m...

That the efficacy had gone down with omicron. same thing with children. that's why pfizer needed to add a third dose and moderna has been looking into doing a booster in the under 6 population. all promising signs that the advisory committee will closely unanimous or unanimously vote through a recommendation to authorize both moderna and pfizer, giving people choices. >> i talked to a parent who said it's not so kid is healthy, why do i have to take a risk on that? >> there's been a sense that kid don't get it so bad and the rest of that phrase should say compared to older adults. in this age ...

Vaccine for the fall. should we expect it to target omicron, which is the variant that's currently dominant? >> yeah. i think the moment today was moderna commenting that they have a third dose for the under 6 age group that is based on updated vaccine technology and they expect data on that by the end of the summer. that could be incredible news and help essentially our kids to catch up because we think we'll have data for that on adults in the fall. more to come. >> thank you very much. we should mention that the nih has just confirmed that although he has avoided it up until now, dr. fauci ...

Would last longer and better target omicron and its subvariants. for now, the cdc is strengthening its booster recommendation, saying immunocompromised americans over 12 and everyone over 50 should get their second booster shot. >> we have a lot of infection out there right now. and what i am recommending to basely everybody over 50 is, given how much infection there is, given that extra layer of protection that the second booster offers, that there's no reason to wait. people should go out and get that second shot. >> reporter: and in those areas of high transmission, the cdc again telling pe...