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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 03:43:10 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   My latest covid illness or vaccination was when I was ill in late May. That means I'll look at getting a vaccination in late November. Will the updated vaccines be out by then? I didn't click to check which stage trial the linked post talking about.

   The company usually vaccinates against flu around that time. I wonder if they'll do both this time.

   
   

   ♲ @GottaLaff@mastodon.social: Get vaccinated. 💉

   “#Moderna on Wednesday said clinical trial data showed its updated #COVID-19 #vaccine will likely be effective against the highly-mutated BA.2.86 subvariant of the coronavirus that has raised fears of a resurgence of infections.”

   reuters.com/business/healthcar…

   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 11:15:15 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      I haven't been keeping up with this, but apparently people were initially very worried about this BA.2.86, a descendant of BA.2 which I seem to remember contributed to one of the waves here and which is itself an Omicron descendant.

      However, BA.2.86 turned out milder than feared in practice and instead it seems a strain called EG.5 is a major driving strain. Existing serums and coming vaccines seem to be covering the latest strains relatively well.

      arstechnica.com/health/2023/09…