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European pharmaceutical giants Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline on Monday said their next-generation Covid booster shot provoked a “strong immune response” against omicron and other variants of concern, promising news for the industry heavyweights as more companies vie to enter the maturing coronavirus vaccine market....
The shot also generated double the number of “neutralizing” antibodies—which target the virus and stop it from replicating—against the BA.1 and BA.2 omicron variants compared to the firms’ booster based on the original Covid strain, Sanofi said.
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