Re:Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity
by _Microft on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @02:28PM
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Isn’t the number of antibodies after a COVID infection far lower than after receiving the vaccine? I thought that’s why a jab after an infection is actually still recommended, to boost the number to levels that vaccinated see?
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Re:Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity
by wait_a_minute on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @02:32PM
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9
The study provides evidence that immunity triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection will be extraordinarily long-lasting. Adding to the good news, “the implications are that vaccines will have the same durable effect”, says Menno van Zelm, an immunologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.