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Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines Less Effective Against South African COVID Variant

February 18, 2021

Via: Drugs.com

Two of the world’s leading coronavirus vaccines don’t work as well against a more contagious South African variant, though both did manage to neutralize the virus, two new studies show.

But experts pointed out that what level of neutralization is needed to actually protect against the variant is still unclear and these latest studies on the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were done in a lab setting, and not the real world, the Washington Post reported. Both reports were published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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