Update (September 2): The CDC greenlighted the use of the Moderna and Pfizer Omicron boosters yesterday, meaning that the shots could start being administered within days. People must have had their ...

The updated Moderna and Pfizer shots target the KP.2 variant, known as one of the FLiRT subtypes of omicron. The Novavax ...

Japan from mid-October plans to administer a new type of vaccine in booster shots designed to protect people from the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, the health ministry said. The ...

KOBE--Japanese getting booster shots of a COVID-19 vaccine significantly increased their neutralizing antibody levels against the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, according to a new study.

As we head into winter illness season, the SMC asked experts for the latest on ou. An updated vaccine targeting new COVID ...

The following is a summary of “Annual variant-targeted vaccination to prevent severe COVID-19 disease in cohorts with vaccine-derived and hybrid immunity,” published in the March 2025 issue of ...

In late August, both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna submitted requests to the FDA for authorization of their Omicron-specific boosters. There’s a catch though: These boosters have been tested only ...

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The UK has become the first country in the world to authorise an updated COVID-19 booster vaccine directed at the Omicron variant, giving a green light to Moderna's mRNA-1273.214 shot.

For some, the symptoms never went away. The omicron relative now dominant in the U.S. is called XEC, which accounted for 45% of variants circulating nationally in the two-week period ending Dec ...

We're in a poor shape for boosters. But on the other hand, we have a very high prior infection rate, particularly with Omicron and all of its variants. What about the fact that a lot of people got ...