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Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommended a change in the design of COVID-19 booster shots this fall in order to combat more recently circulating variants of the coronavirus. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted 19-2 that the next wave of COVID …

Seattle :ID Genomics (IDG), a Seattle-based company, has invented a dipstick-based, rapid test for simultaneous identification of a large number of genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 and has just received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expedite bringing this test to market. The test will ‘fingerprint’ at once all …

Brussels: A 90-year-old unvaccinated woman in Belgium has died after being simultaneously infected with Alpha and Beta — two different variants of concern (VOCs) of COVID-19, researchers have said. The case advocates the need to be alert to co-infections. A team of researchers from the OLV Hospital in Aalst, presented …