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More protective vaccines against influenza are on the horizon.

The shot – named Abryvso and made by Pfizer – is given in the third trimester to protect newborns from lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV

WHO has already dispatched personnel and supplies – equipment such as gloves and isolation tents as well as rehydration fluids — the only current treatment for Marburg

Johnson & Johnson is a single shot that can be followed by a booster dose after at least two months for people 18 and older.

The company said it is continuing to work to develop an omicron-specific booster.

Vaccine makers are already pivoting their efforts to combat the new variant: testing higher doses of booster shots, designing new boosters that anticipate strain mutations, and developing omicron-specific boosters.