A new study finds that people still had high levels of antibodies three months after receiving the Moderna vaccine, positive news for estimating how long immunity to the virus from the vaccine will last.<\/p>\n
The results published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that people will have immunity for at least three months after receiving the vaccine. It is still a serious question of how long immunity will last in total. It is possible people will have to return to get booster shots after some number of months if immunity is not long-lasting.<\/p>\n
But the results finding elevated antibody levels three months after people received the second dose of the Moderna vaccine are encouraging, researchers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese data give us further optimism to expect that the high level of efficacy recently demonstrated by [the vaccine] to prevent COVID-19 disease will be durable,\u201d said Tal Zaks, Moderna\u2019s chief medical officer.<\/p>\n