Pfizer Data Suggest Third Dose Of Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Strongly’ Boosts Protection Against Delta Variant

(CNN) — A 3rd dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine tin “strongly” boost extortion against the Delta variant — beyond the extortion afforded by the modular 2 doses, suggests caller information released by Pfizer connected Wednesday.

The information posted online, which are expected to beryllium discussed successful a institution net telephone connected Wednesday morning, suggest that antibody levels against the Delta variant successful radical ages 18 to 55 who person a 3rd dose of vaccine are greater than five-fold than pursuing a 2nd dose.

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Among radical ages 65 to 85, the Pfizer information suggest that antibody levels against the Delta variant aft receiving the 3rd dose of vaccine are greater than 11-fold than pursuing a 2nd dose.

There’s an “estimated imaginable for up to 100-fold summation successful Delta neutralization post-dose 3 compared to pre-dose three,” researchers wrote successful the Pfizer information slides.

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The information person not yet been peer-reviewed oregon published.

The information besides amusement that antibody levels are overmuch higher aft the 3rd dose than a 2nd dose against the archetypal coronavirus variant and the Beta variant, archetypal identified successful South Africa.

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