BOOSTER jabs should be enough to protect Brits from falling seriously unwell from the Omicron variant, top scientists claim. New data vindicates the UK’s decision to offer Pfizer or Moderna as a th…
Prof Faust added: “All of the vaccines in our study do show a statistically significant boost... RNA very high, but very effective boosts from Novavax, Janssen and AstraZeneca as well.”OmicronFears the vaccines will prove less effective against Omicron have sparked a race to offer booster jabs to all adults by the end of January.
Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, said: "This is a fantastic study. "It shows that an mRNA booster - such as Moderna or Pfizer - provided the best overall boost, irrespective of whether your first doses were mRNA or AstraZeneca. "The fact that the mRNA vaccine boosts gave a marked increase in both antibodies and T cells is great news, especially now, when our attention has been grabbed by the emergence of the Omicron variant.”of variant-busting Pfizer and Moderna jabs – enough to vaccinate Britain twice over.We pay for your stories!
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