WASHINGTON, June 22 — Moderna today said its new Covid booster candidate, which it is hoping to get approved this fall, performed well against Omicron's latest subvariants.
In new results from a clinical study, the company said that the booster also did well against BA.4 and BA.5, Omicron's latest subvariants that are becoming dominant thanks to their increased ability to evade prior immunity, and enhanced transmissibility. However even those high levels were still one third the levels achieved against the original Omicron strain, BA.1
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