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Moderna booster provides strong protection against all variants - Health Dept.

Washington, Oct 22 (UNI/Sputnik) A trial of two versions of Moderna’s COVID-19 booster shot in rhesus monkeys demonstrated effectiveness against all coronavirus variants, including Beta from South Africa with the ability to evade protection from vaccines, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said.
“The researchers focused on the Beta variant because it has consistently shown the greatest ability to resist neutralization - by likely reducing vaccine effectiveness,” the NIH said in a press release on Thursday.
While Delta has become the dominant coronavirus variant in the United States, because of its high transmissibility, Delta has only an intermediate ability to resist neutralization, the release said.
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