Moderna Takes The Lead With Plan To Tackle New COVID-19 Variants

New Tweaked Booster To Enter Phase I Study

Moderna has unveiled plans to develop a new booster vaccine, tweaked to meet the threat posed by the South African strain.

Moderna aims to produce up to 1 billion doses of its existing vaccine in 2021 - but a new booster to target variants will also enter Phase I trials.

Moderna, one of the companies behind the ground-breaking mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, has produced proof that its product still works against new variants of the virus, but has plans in place to meet the threat of other variants.

Its data follow hot on the heels of a similar study from fellow mRNA vaccine developer BioNTech, suggesting that...

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