Moderna. The bivalent vaccine is designed to protect people from the original strain of COVID-19 and the original strain of the most dominant form of Covid, Omicron, specifically Omicron BA.
1. Many in the UK will be familiar with Omicron and its subvariants. Originally from South Africa, the variant began spreading through the UK last winter and has gone onto evolve into five additional subvariants:• BA.
2• BA. 2. 75 (Also known as Centaurus)• BA. 3• BA. 4• BA. 5. READ MORE: Paul Newman: Risk factors of the 'horrible' disease that killed actorWhile the new bivalent vaccine is designed for Omicron BA.
1, the hope is that because of BA. 1's similarity to all the other forms of Omicron that it will prove more effective. In common with all other Covid vaccines to date, there are some side effects.