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New Covid vaccines are coming to the U.S. this fall, but uptake may be low — Here’s why (www.cnbc.com)
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Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are slated to deliver new single-strain Covid shots targeting the omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 in September.

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Basically, when they were making the vaccines, they were like, Okay, we don't know exactly how warm we can successfully store them at and have them remain good. But we definitively know that if we store them at this incredibly good temperature, it'll stay good. Rather than have people dying while we play around with variables when we don't need to, we'll just do things at the temperatures we know are good, and we'll research and figure out the warmer temperatures later on.. And now it's later on, so ...