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  • Covid-19: Single dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine produces strong antibody response in over 80s

    04/19/2021 12:16:09 PM PDT · by Cathi · 8 replies
    BMJ ^ | April 15, 2021 | BMJ
    A small number of people (eight) had signs of previous natural covid-19 infection. Compared with those without previous infection, their antibody and T cell responses after the first vaccine dose were significantly higher (691-fold and fourfold, respectively). The study also found stronger T cell responses in people who had received the AstraZeneca vaccine, with 31% of this group producing detectable T cell responses compared with 12% of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine group. The researchers said that the clinical importance of the difference in T cell response was not yet clear, but it could be important when dealing with variants of covid-19....