By XIAOXU SEAN LIN AND HEALTH 1+1 On August 31, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to authorize the use of bivalent COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by both the companies as a single booster dose. These bivalent vaccines contain the mRNA components of […]
Tag: Coronavirus Omicron Variant
The Omicron variant is a variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It was first reported to the World Health Organization from South Africa on 24 November 2021. On 26 November 2021, the WHO designated it as a variant of concern and named it “Omicron”, the fifteenth letter in the Greek alphabet.
