WATCH | Canada to ramp up coronavirus vaccine rollout:Canada to ramp up COVID-19 vaccine rollout as Pfizer commits to more deliveries The National Video 4:05 Canada has been promised millions more COVID-19 vaccine doses in the coming months, including more deliveries from Pfizer as vaccination campaigns ramp up. Prototype vaccine targeting variant in the worksHe said the company has already made a DNA template for a prototype vaccine targeting the variant and plans to manufacture a batch of it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not yet released a roadmap for how companies should design trials of coronavirus booster shots. On Wednesday, Moderna also published a correspondence in NEJM with similar data previously disclosed elsewhere that showed a six-fold drop in antibody levels versus the variant identified in South Africa. Moderna also said the actual efficacy of its vaccine against this variant is yet to be determined.

Source: CBC News February 18, 2021 17:25 UTC