FRESNO, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – The Food and Drug Administration approved two updated COVID-19 vaccines – Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA, benefiting people affected by the current variant.
Experts say these new vaccines are now effective against variants that are currently involved with the uptick in COVID-19 cases.
“With every variant, they get a little bit different from the prior and that makes the vaccine a little less efficacious or protective against you from getting sick or getting hospitalized. So, it still showed efficacy, but it was starting to get a little lower. So, you want to stay on top of it,” Dr. Kenny Banh, Professor of Emergency Medicine at UC San Francisco of Fresno said…