"It’s impossible to guarantee a 100% match between a vaccine and a circulating variant when a virus is constantly mutating...[but] the newly updated Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines, designed to target KP.2 (the dominant COVID strain this past spring), and the latest Novavax vaccine that targets an earlier strain— JN.1—should also provide protection against XEC"
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/3-things-to-know-about-xec-the-latest-covid-strain
🔸Vaccines in #Japan for 2024/2025 target JN1 strain
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_40879.html
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