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Updated vaccine protects from infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants, prevents transmission and 1 is immunogenic against Omicron in hamsters 2 3 Sapna Sharma a, Thomas Vercruysse a, b, Lorena Sanchez-Felipe a, Winnie Kerstens a, b, Madina Rasulova 4 a, b, Rana Abdelnabi a, Caroline S Foo a, Viktor Lemmens a, Dominique Van Looveren a, b, Piet Maes c, 5 Guy Baele d, Birgit Weynand e, Philippe Lemey d, Johan Neyts a,f, Hendrik Jan Thibaut a, b, &, and Kai 6 Dallmeier a, &, # 7 8 a KU Leuven Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, 9 Laboratory of Virology, Molecular Vaccinology and Vaccine Discovery, Leuven, Belgium. 10