How to Use monovalent in a Sentence

monovalent

adjective
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  • The rVE in this age group jumped to 56 percent when compared to people with two more monovalent doses, if the most recent dose was given eight or more months ago.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Although the level of antibodies was lower than with a monovalent vaccine, the breadth of coverage was greater.
    — Laura Defrancesco, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Though the vial labels are bordered in gray for the bivalent booster and purple for the monovalent product for 6- to 11-year-olds, the potential for confusion exists, Hall said.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Or, people can take it two months after a monovalent booster of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The committee was not asked to vote on what sublineage to include or whether the booster should be monovalent vaccine or a bivalent vaccine, which would include two strains.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • Pfizer has a bivalent booster for people 12 and older, and a monovalent primary series for people in the same age bracket.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Pfizer and BioNTech provided figures for the efficacy of the vaccine that appeared to show the monovalent vaccine might boost antibody titers more.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 28 June 2022
  • Marks seemed to indicate there may be an interest in using a monovalent Omicron vaccine as a primary series.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 28 June 2022
  • Expect similar side effects to the bivalent booster of Moderna and Pfizer as the monovalent version and primary shot.
    — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • But only a select group are likely to benefit, and the evidence to date doesn’t support the view that a bivalent vaccine containing omicron or its subvariants is better than the monovalent vaccine.
    — Paul A. Offit, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The conventional shots are monovalent vaccines, intended to protect only against the original coronavirus strain.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022

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