The drugmaker said its 'bivalent' vaccine generated a strong immune response against multiple variants of concern, including omicron.
The findings were announced in a company press release, so the full data hasn’t yet been reviewed by outside scientists.
, when immunity from previous shots will likely begin to wane and Covid-19 cases are expected to rise. Tuesday’s results on the beta-variant bivalent vaccine offers hints that the omicron bivalent vaccine will also work well, the company said, because the beta variant has some mutations also seen in the omicron variant.
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