Moderna’s chief medical officer, Paul Burton, said Sunday that his company is preparing to deliver large quantities of its omicron vaccine booster and other variants of COVID-19 this fall.
“We are confident that by the fall of this year we should have large quantities of this new booster vaccine that will protect against Omicron and other options,” Burton said in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation.
Last month, Moderna announced that its new bivalent booster vaccine against COVID-19 is more effective against all variants than the company’s currently available coronavirus vaccine.
The company said it expects initial data on its omicron-specific vaccine to be available in the second quarter of this year.
Burton also put general pressure on Sunday for people who have not yet done so to get their COVID-19 booster.
“People already have the right to be strengthened. I would absolutely recommend it, “he said on Sunday.
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Also in Face the Nation, Deborah Birks, a former member of the Trump administration’s White House coronavirus task force, called on the United States to step up preparations for a potential COVID-19 jump in the summer, citing a growing number of cases in the South. Africa .
“Each of these jumps has an interval of about four to six months,” she said of outbreaks in South Africa. “This tells me that natural immunity is declining enough in the general population after four to six months, that there will be a significant jump again. And we need to be prepared for that in this country. “
As of Saturday, the United States reported 23,349 daily cases of COVID-19, well below the 1 million daily cases seen during the Omicron eruption in January.
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