Jay@beehaw.org to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoOur fall COVID boosters will likely be a monovalent XBB formulaarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
arrow-up123arrow-down1external-linkOur fall COVID boosters will likely be a monovalent XBB formulaarstechnica.comJay@beehaw.org to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squaremisguidedfunk@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoSo a monovalent booster should not wane in effectiveness as the bivalent?
minus-squareJay@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 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.