What does it mean for a vaccine to be bivalent? Are the COVID-19 bivalent vaccines effective and safe? When will they be available? Are they worth waiting for?
There are so many questions surrounding COVID-19 bivalent vaccines right now. We tried to answer the most common ones.
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