{"id":7193,"date":"2024-09-24T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7193"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:09:08","slug":"health-canada-approves-pfizer-biontechs-updated-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-approves-pfizer-biontechs-updated-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Canada approves Pfizer-BioNTech\u2019s updated COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada approved Pfizer-BioNTech\u2019s updated COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, marking its third authorization of vaccine formulations that protect against the most recently circulating variants of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer-BioNTech\u2019s mRNA vaccine, called Comirnaty, targets the KP.2 subvariant of Omicron, replacing the previous version that targeted the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant.<\/p>\n<p>The approval of Comirnaty follows last week\u2019s authorization of Moderna\u2019s updated Spikevax mRNA vaccine and Novavax\u2019s updated protein-based vaccine, Nuvaxovid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada approved Pfizer-BioNTech\u2019s updated COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, marking its third authorization of vaccine formulations that protect against the most recently circulating variants of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer-BioNTech\u2019s mRNA vaccine, called Comirnaty, targets the KP.2 subvariant of Omicron, replacing the previous version that targeted the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant.<\/p>\n<p>The approval of Comirnaty follows last week\u2019s authorization of Moderna\u2019s updated Spikevax mRNA vaccine and Novavax\u2019s updated protein-based vaccine, Nuvaxovid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-approves-pfizer-biontechs-updated-covid-19-vaccine\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health Canada approves Pfizer-BioNTech\u2019s updated COVID-19 vaccine<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,21,1094,253,254,55,252,835,14,15,255],"class_list":["post-7193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-kp-2","tag-moderna","tag-novavax","tag-omicron","tag-pfizer","tag-pfizer-biontech","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","tag-xbb-1-5","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}