What to Know About Novavax
author:Jessica Rendallsource:CNET 2022-07-05
[Medicine]
The US Food and Drug Administration recommended Thursday that COVID-19 vaccine-makers change their vaccine formulas in order to target omicron -- an ever-evolving variant that keeps becoming more contagious. While vaccines that target ancestral strains of the virus that cause COVID-19 still protect against severe disease and death, waning effectiveness calls for doses tweaked with a component specifically for omicron, according to the FDA.