All XBB.1.5 articles
-
NewsRegular vaccine boosts may help people who are immunocompromised fight Covid-19
New research finds booster doses of bivalent vaccines given every three to six months helps maintain a person’s ability to neutralize multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains, including XBB.1.5.
-
NewsEffectiveness of updated COVID-19 vaccines wanes moderately over time, is lower against currently circulating variants
New research shows boosters targeting omicron subvariants of SARS-CoV-2 are still providing reasonably durable protection against infection, hospitalization and death from COVID-19, but are less protective against the JN.1 strain.
-
NewsSARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 less resistant to vaccine, but may be a problem in the lung
New research shows that the recently emerged BA.2.86 omicron subvariant of the virus that causes COVID-19 can be neutralized by bivalent mRNA vaccine-induced antibodies in the blood.
