Moderna: working on Covid booster for South Africa variant, current vax some protection

 

• Moderna said it’s accelerating work on a Covid-19 booster shot to guard against the recently discovered variant in South Africa.
• Its researchers said its current coronavirus vaccine appears to work against the two highly transmissible strains found in the U.K. and South Africa, although it looks like it may be less effective against the latter.
• https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/covid-vaccine-moderna-working-on-covid-booster-shots-for-south-african-strain.html