Omicron-targeted vaccines do no better than original jabs in early tests

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Experiments in animals show that boosters customized for the fast-spreading COVID variant offer little advantage over standard jabs.

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  1. Emily Waltz

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As the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 continues its global rampage, vaccine makers are pouring resources into clinical trials of COVID-19 shots tailored to the highly transmissible variant. But a raft of early animal studies suggest that Omicron-specific boosters offer no advantage over a third dose of current vaccines1–4.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00003-y

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