{"id":120137,"date":"2021-11-29T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120137"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:36:12","slug":"second-covid-19-booster-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120137","title":{"rendered":"Second COVID-19 booster on the horizon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=112151\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-112151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/covid1-275x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/covid1-275x333.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/covid1-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/covid1.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson &amp; Johnson are set to work on a vaccine tailored to address the omicron variant of COVID-19. Initial reports suggest that this variant may be able to circumvent both natural immunity from prior infections, and the immunity gained from the vaccines. This variant is reported to be more transmissible than previous variants.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Newsmax:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The variant&#8217;s emergence has triggered a strong global response as countries worried that it could spread fast even in vaccinated populations impose travel curbs and other restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>BioNTech SE said it had started work on a vaccine tailored to Omicron, along with partner Pfizer.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Moderna Inc said it could take months to begin shipping such a vaccine, Chief Executive Officer St\u00e9phane Bancel told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Bancel said the effectiveness of existing COVID-19 vaccines against the variant was currently not known, adding there should be more clarity in about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson &amp; Johnson is also evaluating the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine against Omicron, while also pursuing a vaccine specific to the variant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have begun work to design and develop a new vaccine against Omicron and will rapidly progress it into clinical studies if needed,&#8221; said Mathai Mammen, global head of research for J&amp;J&#8217;s pharmaceuticals unit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Newsmax has more on the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/finance\/streettalk\/covid-19-omicron-vaccine-biontech-moderna-j-j\/2021\/11\/29\/id\/1046528\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson &amp; Johnson are set to work on a vaccine tailored to address &hellip; <a title=\"Second COVID-19 booster on the horizon?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120137\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second COVID-19 booster on the horizon?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120138,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120137\/revisions\/120138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}