Our fall COVID boosters will likely be a monovalent XBB formulaarstechnica.comexternal-link Jay ( @jay@beehaw.org ) World NewsEnglish • 1 year ago message-square5arrow-up133
arrow-up133external-linkOur fall COVID boosters will likely be a monovalent XBB formulaarstechnica.com Jay ( @jay@beehaw.org ) World NewsEnglish • 1 year ago message-square5
minus-square misguidedfunk ( @misguidedfunk@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoSo a monovalent booster should not wane in effectiveness as the bivalent?
minus-square Jay ( @jay@beehaw.org ) OPlinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoI think it’s just that the bivalent booster was targeting (a) an extinct variant and (b) a different Omicron subvariant. This will target some form of Omicron XBB, I think, which has been the dominant strain for months now.
So a monovalent booster should not wane in effectiveness as the bivalent?
I think it’s just that the bivalent booster was targeting (a) an extinct variant and (b) a different Omicron subvariant. This will target some form of Omicron XBB, I think, which has been the dominant strain for months now.