South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says

Re:South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, I... by tomjuggler on Sunday April 11, 2021 @02:37AM (#26767977)

I haven't seen much press about this outside of South Africa, but our government just sold something like 1 Million AstraZenica vaccines (the first bulk order of vaccines we received) because of a local study showing they were ineffective here.

Then we ordered something like 10 million of the Pfizer to start again... Now this.

And you can guess which variant of the virus is doing the rounds here!

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Re:South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, I... by tomjuggler on Sunday April 11, 2021 @02:45AM (#26768027)

We sold our first million vaccines - article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-safric...

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Re:South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, I... by throwaway4good on Sunday April 11, 2021 @02:59AM (#26768096)

I am curious why you (your health authorities) don't run a trial first? Why would you not expect the Pfizer vaccine to have the same variant troubles as the AZ?

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Re:South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, I... by _djo_ on Sunday April 11, 2021 @09:38AM (#26770284)

There wasn’t enough time for a full new trial, especially as the first phase was meant to be a trial in and of itself and was intended for crucial high risk individuals like healthcare workers. So the country had to rely on what data was available, which showed much better effectiveness against B.1351 from the Pfizer and J&J vaccines.

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