Coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech shows positive results, report says
Researcher involved in retracted Lancet study has faculty appointment terminated, as details in scandal emerge
The vaccine generated antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and some of these antibodies were neutralizing, meaning that they appear to prevent the virus from functioning. Levels of neutralizing antibodies were 1.8- to 2.8-times the level of that in the recovered patients. The current study did not include pregnant women, and no other information on the ethnic diversity of participants was noted, although the paper does say that future studies will need to include a more diverse group.
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