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Moderna says vaccine protects against all known variants – Motley Fool Australia
A weaker response to the South African variant prompts studies of a strain-specific booster.
Moderna(NASDAQ:MRNA) announced evidence that its COVID-19 vaccine is protective against all variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus detected to date, including two strains first detected in the United Kingdom and South Africa. The level of protective antibodies against the U.K. strain, B.1.1.7, was equivalent to those against earlier variants. But while the antibodies to B.1.351, the South African strain, were believed to be sufficient to be protective against the disease, they were reduced, leading the…
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