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Billy Gardner

@billy_gardner_

PhD Student at UC Santa Cruz | Disease Ecology | Epidemiology | NSF GRFP Fellow | he/him

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New evidence that could persuade you to 💉get a booster💉 UC Santa Cruz scientists Billy Gardner & A Marm Kilpatrick now @disease-ecology.bsky.social found protection from #Omicron infection is "essentially eliminated" 4 months after getting vaccinated, but boosters restore protection to ~48% : reuters.com/business/healt…

New evidence that could persuade you to 💉get a booster💉 
<a href="/ucsc/">UC Santa Cruz</a> scientists <a href="/billy_gardner_/">Billy Gardner</a> &amp; <a href="/DiseaseEcology/">A Marm Kilpatrick now @disease-ecology.bsky.social</a> found protection from #Omicron infection is "essentially eliminated" 4 months after getting vaccinated, but boosters restore protection to ~48% :
reuters.com/business/healt…
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Result 2 (re-attaching same figure): Monovalent vaccines for BA.1 or BA.5 give titers against homologous virus at least as good as mRNA1273 gives against Wuhan-Hu-1. In other words, there is no evidence here for Omicron spike being less immunogenic than Wuhan-Hu-1 spike.

Result 2 (re-attaching same figure): Monovalent vaccines for BA.1 or BA.5 give  titers against homologous virus at least as good as mRNA1273 gives against Wuhan-Hu-1.

In other words, there is no evidence here for Omicron spike being less immunogenic than Wuhan-Hu-1 spike.