Moderna’s experimental next-generation COVID-19 vaccine is going to provide a benefit against the family of omicron variants and subvariants, Moderna President Stephen Hoge said during a call with investors.
Moderna’s MRNA, +1.69% experimental next-generation COVID-19 vaccine provides more protection against omicron than the original shot, and the company is aiming to make it available to Americans this summer.
“We’re pretty confident that this vaccine is going to provide a benefit even against the family of omicron variants and subvariants,” Moderna President Stephen Hoge said during a call with investors on Wednesday. “We’ll see whether that superiority is better or the same at three months, day 90, and at six months, day 181,” he added. “The real goal is to get to that six to nine months duration of protection, which gets you through the whole respiratory virus season.”
“That is actually precedented,” Hoge said. “If you think about it, that’s what happens with the flu vaccine every year.” Public-health experts have been saying for months that developing a new crop of COVID-19 vaccines that target the currently circulating strains of the virus is an important step in keeping people protected.
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