How to Use bivalent in a Sentence

bivalent

1 of 2 adjective

• The current bivalent booster is aimed at both the original virus and the BA.5 variant.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• Seniors can get the dose as early as four months after their first shot of bivalent vaccine.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2023
• The bivalent shot is designed to protect against two omicron variants, called BA4 and BA5.
  — Nacha Cattan, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
• Around 20% of adults and 43% of seniors have gotten their first bivalent vaccine dose so far, according to the CDC's figures.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2023
• Yet only about 43% of adults 65 and older have received a bivalent booster shot.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Notably, all these boosters are bivalent, meaning that half of the shot protects against the original vaccine strain and the other half against the omicron strain.
  — Cameron Sabet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• People who get the new bivalent booster will be considered up-to-date on their vaccines, experts say.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• It was called a bivalent shot because it was designed to protect against both the latest sublineages as well as the ancestral strain.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Either way, Moderna or Pfizer would have to allow the use of their bivalent vaccines.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 30 May 2023
• Neither study, however, looked at the effects of getting two doses of the bivalent boosters.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 19 Apr. 2023
• If advised by your physician, get the new bivalent vaccine and wear masks in indoor public spaces such as theaters and airplanes.
  — E. Wesley Ely, STAT, 16 Feb. 2023
• Both Canada and the United Kingdom have offered another round of bivalent boosters to those at highest risk from Covid-19 this spring.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
• Health officials say the bivalent shots more closely match the circulating virus.
  — Lena H. Sun, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Twelve of the participants received a bivalent Covid booster and seasonal influenza shot on the same day.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• For now, getting another bivalent booster dose is not authorized by the FDA.
  — Carla Delgado, Verywell Health, 11 Apr. 2023
• Vaccine clinics with bivalent vaccines for all ages 6 months and older will continue to be available.
  — Carroll County Times Staff, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2023
• Even when the vaccine was free, however, only about 17% of the country’s population got a dose of the bivalent booster shot, according to CDC data.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 28 Aug. 2023
• For everyone else, the recommendation is just one bivalent booster shot, at least for now.
  — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
• The new vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax will differ from the available bivalent vaccines.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 16 June 2023
• For people who are unvaccinated, Roberts advises not to wait and to get last year’s bivalent booster.
  — Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2023
• Roughly 61% of residents came back for their first booster, and nearly a quarter of Californians got a dose of the bivalent booster.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• The bivalent booster, as it is known, targets omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, as well as the original coronavirus.
  — Laurie McGinley and Lena H. Sun, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2023
• Statewide, just under 46% of those 65 and older who have been vaccinated have also gotten a bivalent booster.
  — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• These days, more than 70 percent of pregnant women have gotten Covid vaccines, but only about 20 percent have received the bivalent boosters.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• The bivalent vaccine targets the original variant of the coronavirus as well as variants BA.4 and BA.5, which were dominant last summer.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• That’s because last month, Pfizer updated the third dose of its primary series to contain the bivalent vaccine, which covers the omicron variant, too.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2023
• So, consider the currently available bivalent boosters to be a bit like gaucho pants, hoodie sets, or skinny jeans with chunky sneakers.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• How do the current bivalent vaccination rates factor into the new guidance?
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2023
• The country is also ready with ample tests at local retailers, and experts say there will likely be a new bivalent booster available in the fall to enhance that immune protection.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• As of December, roughly 70 percent of the population had the primary series of the vaccine, while less than 20 percent had received a bivalent booster.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023

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bivalent

2 of 2 noun

• But the fact that the dose is bivalent may not mean much.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Abraham, for one, isn’t quite sold on the idea of a bivalent vaccine.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022
• Jo Ann Jenkins to field questions on when and why to get the bivalent booster shots.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2022
• At the time they were done, only about 5% of adults in each study had received a bivalent booster.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
• And does the recent booster shot, the bivalent, protect against it?
  — CBS News, 27 Nov. 2022
• When will the bivalent vaccine be available for younger groups?
  — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Aug. 2022
• The current bivalent booster targets parts of the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants that spread across the globe midyear.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• O’Leary said the bivalent form of the vaccine will likely be the formulation used in the Malawi response.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 23 Feb. 2022
• Health officials have stressed that the bivalent vaccines are safe to use.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2022
• Ravi said it’s easy to get your flu shot and bivalent booster at the same time at your local pharmacy.
  — James Bikales, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
• No one knows yet whether the new bivalent formula will change that timeline.
  — Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022
• And it’s not just the bivalent BA.4/5 booster that resulted in this pattern.
  — Alice Park, Time, 11 Jan. 2023
• The bivalent vaccines target the original strain as well as the BA.4/5 Omicron strains.
  — Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
• The concept of bivalent vaccines aimed at protecting against two different strains of a virus is not new.
  — Mitzi Nagarkatti, The Conversation, 1 Sep. 2022
• On Tuesday, the FDA's advisers reviewed the data and favored a bivalent vaccine -- a type of vaccine that targets two strains of virus in the same shot.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 29 June 2022
• Some were what’s called bivalent, containing both the mRNA codes for the spike protein in the original virus strain that emerged in China and the spike protein in a strain of omicron.
  — Robin Fields, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2022
• Will vaccines and the bivalent booster still work against omicron variants?
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
• The agency has not reported state-level uptakes of the new bivalent booster but has put the national rate at just 4%.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
• The latest bivalent booster appears to protect well, for now.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2022
• The same safety signal has not been detected with the bivalent Moderna booster, the CDC said in its notice.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
• The company has tested such a bivalent vaccine in adults and expects to seek U.S. authorization to use it as a booster shot in adults.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• This would create what's known as a bivalent, or two component,booster.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 30 June 2022
• There is also a lot happening in the world right now, and other major news stories may have drowned out coverage of the bivalent vaccines.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 18 Oct. 2022
• These data were recently removed from the website when case data were added for the bivalent booster.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
• And a lot of people actually are not getting that bivalent booster right now.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• Everyone ages 6 years and older can choose to get the Pfizer or Moderna bivalent booster.
  — Verywell Health, 27 Jan. 2023
• Seniors who got five shots including the bivalent were only 23% less likely to get sick this fall than the unvaccinated.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
• And some parents remain wary of the bivalent vaccine’s evolving safety profile.
  — Joel Zinberg, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• The companies plan to continue studying the Omicron BA.4/5 bivalent booster in younger children as well.
  — Alice Park, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• In April of that year, the 155 countries still using the trivalent vaccine, which targets all three polio variants, replaced it with a bivalent vaccine with the type 2 component removed.
  — Leslie Roberts, Science | AAAS, 2 July 2018

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