Fall Covid booster works against the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant, Moderna says

[ad_1] Moderna’s latest Covid booster appears to work against the BA.2.86 omicron subvariant, the drugmaker said in a release Wednesday. The updated booster generated a strong antibody response against BA.2.86,…

Moderna says updated Covid vaccine was effective against highly mutated BA.2.86 variant in trial

[ad_1] Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Moderna‘s new Covid vaccine produced a strong immune response against BA.2.86, a highly mutated omicron variant that health officials are watching closely,…

Highly mutated COVID variant found in new countries but pandemic in ‘a different phase’

[ad_1] LONDON/CHICAGO, Aug 24 (Reuters) – A highly mutated COVID variant called BA.2.86 has now been detected in Switzerland and South Africa in addition to Israel, Denmark, the U.S. and…

What you need to know about the latest, highly mutated Covid variant

[ad_1] Global disease experts are monitoring a new variant, BA.2.86, that carries a large number of mutations — meaning it looks significantly different from the original version of Omicron and…