{"id":247115,"date":"2022-04-19T06:50:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=247115"},"modified":"2022-04-19T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:53:07","slug":"moderna-hopes-to-offer-updated-covid-19-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=247115","title":{"rendered":"Moderna hopes to offer updated COVID-19 boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-234997\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Moderna-genericCovidbottle-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Moderna-genericCovidbottle-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Moderna-genericCovidbottle-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Moderna-genericCovidbottle.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Moderna hopes to offer updated COVID-19 boosters in the fall that combine the original vaccine with protection against the latest variant. Now it&#8217;s reporting a hint that such an approach might work. Before omicron struck, Moderna began testing a shot combining the original vaccine with protection against an earlier variant named beta. The company says people given that test combo shot developed more antibodies capable of fighting newer variants \u2014 including omicron \u2014 than today&#8217;s regular booster. Studies are underway to see if a combination shot that adds omicron-specific protection works better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderna hopes to offer updated COVID-19 boosters in the fall that combine the original vaccine with protection against the latest variant. Now it&#8217;s reporting a hint that such an approach might work. Before omicron struck, Moderna began testing a shot combining the original vaccine with protection against an earlier variant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247117,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247115\/revisions\/247117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}