(MedPageToday Video) In this video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, discusses his recent articleopens in a new tab or window diving into new studiesopens in a new tab or window on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 bivalent booster versus the monovalent booster.
One thing that people are really interested in right now is this question as to whether the bivalent booster is better than what we had before.
Certainly, it was marketed as we have these mRNA vaccines, we can swap out very easily what’s in that vaccine, and make changes and keep up. And therefore, this fall, the FDA rolled out the bivalent booster, which had some of the original Wuhan spike protein recipe and some of Omicron; that’s the “bivalent” part.