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Re:Virological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 BA2 variant: mo... by data_acquired on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:46PM (#30411762)
Yeah, its not clear if preventing symptomatic infection is as crucial an end-point in contrast to preventing hospitalization, the latter of which is indeed mediated by T-cell immunity rather than antibody titers. The following detail is worth noting though ---

"Vaccine sera were collected from sixteen vaccinees four weeks after the second vaccination with mRNA-1273 (Moderna)"

So it seems like they haven't tested against sera from people who got three doses? Response to BA.1 was better with three doses than two, but I think if the data from Israel was to go by, the impact of the third dose on antibody titers also waned over time (although T-cell mediated immunity stayed the same in terms of % hospitalized).

Re:Virological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 BA2 variant: mo... by rastignack on Monday February 21, 2022 @12:05AM (#30412154)
> Response to BA.1 was better with three doses than two

Not under 60, though.

Re:Virological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 BA2 variant: mo... by EdwardDiego on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:03AM (#30412424)
Source?