Dr David Bauer: Pfizer vaccine produces fewer key antibodies 04/06/2021

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Dr Bauer of the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research centre in London, explains that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine produces 5-6 times fewer neutralizing antibodies that play a key role in protecting us from the Indian variant. He suggests that booster Pfizer jabs will be essential.

Francis Crick Institute: https://www.crick.ac.uk/

www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01290-3/fulltext

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