Moderna and Pfizer have both said that updated versions of their COVID-19 vaccines work against the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant, also known as Pirola, which is being cl
The Biden administration has allocated $1.4 billion to new COVID-19 vaccines and drugs, as new SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86 has started spreading in the US.
Future booster campaigns against COVID-19 should include vaccines with a component targeting the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, according to the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Produc
Moderna's new version of its COVID-19 vaccine, which targets two virus variants including Omicron, has outperformed the company's original Spikevax shot in a head-to-head clinical trial.
The new BA.2 subvariant of Omicron is around 50% more transmissible than the original BA.1 strain, and there is somewhat conflicting evidence on its ability to evade the protection from vac
With healthcare systems around the world labouring under the strain of dealing with the Omicron wave of COVID-19 infections, attention is already turning to a new sub-variant that is starti