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EMA Assessing Variant-Adapted Spikevax, Probes Heart Inflammation With Nuvaxovid

 
• By Ian Schofield

A rolling review of an adapted version of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax aimed at variants of SARS-CoV-2 has begun at the European Medicines Agency. The EMA has also given an update on its latest vaccine safety reviews, including reports of heavy menstrual bleeding with Spikevax and Comirnaty.

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Comirnaty and Spikevax are undergoing an EU safety review • Source: Shutterstock

The European Medicines Agency has begun a rolling review of a bivalent version of Moderna, Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax, that targets the original strain of the virus as well as the Omicron variant of concern.

As with the variant-adapted version of Pfizer Inc./BioNTech SE’s Comirnaty, whose rolling review at the EMA began on...

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