The bivalent vaccine and the COVID way forward

Guest: Alex Boyd, reporter

Health Canada has authorized a new type of COVID shot from Moderna. It is a bivalent vaccine which means it is essentially two vaccines in one, in this case targeting the original virus and the Omicron variant BA.1. The new vaccines are arriving in Canada just ahead of a predicted COVID surge this fall. Toronto Star reporter Alex Boyd tells us more about bivalent vaccines and what this means for the future in a world where the virus isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

This episode was produced by Saba Eitizaz, Paulo Marques and Brian Bradley.