https://www.timesofisrael.com/pfizer-vaccine-appears-effective-against-british-virus-variant-study/
TL;DR: https://smmry.com/https://www.timesofisrael.com/pfizer-vaccine-appears-effective-against-british-virus-variant-study/#&SM_LENGTH=7 > Pfizer vaccine appears effective against British virus variant > The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine appears to be effective against the new, more > infectious coronavirus variant that was first detected in Britain and has > since been found in dozens of countries, according to two preliminary studies > released Wednesday. > > "Our results suggest that the majority of vaccine responses should be > effective against the B.1.1.7 variant," concluded researchers from Britain > and the Netherlands in one of the studies. > > A separate preliminary study by researchers from BioNTech and Pfizer also > found their vaccine to be effective against the B.1. > > They compared the neutralizing effect of plasma from 16 participants in their > vaccine clinical trials against the British variant and the original virus > that emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. > > 1.7 variant could escape the immune protection of the vaccine. > > In previous preliminary research from Pfizer/BioNTech released earlier this > month, scientists found the vaccine was effective against a mutation, N501Y, > common to the virus variants found in Britain, South Africa and Brazil. > > Ran Balicer, head of the expert panel that advises Ash speculated to Ynet > Wednesday that the British variant would become the main strain in Israel in > a matter of weeks. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
