{"id":31164,"date":"2021-01-28T18:12:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31164"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:12:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:12:54","slug":"study-finds-pfizer-vaccine-effective-against-mutations-in-new-covid-19-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31164","title":{"rendered":"Study finds Pfizer vaccine effective against mutations in new COVID-19 variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pfizer study released Wednesday determined that the mutations in the COVID-19 variants originally found in the United Kingdom and South Africa have \u201csmall effects\u201d on the effectiveness of the company\u2019s vaccine developed with BioNTech.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bggbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmpdzfdcb_bbjpggflfypqppbcgqcj.html?a=&amp;b=36507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bggbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmpdzfdcb_bbjpggflfypqppbcgqcj.html?a%3D%26b%3D36507&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611962173448000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFLLjYBH5V0M1WZz3kaq6uavXeE3Q\">preliminary research<\/a>, conducted by Pfizer and University of Texas Medical Branch scientists, concluded that the results showed no need for an additional vaccine for the variants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile these findings do not indicate the need for a new vaccine to address the emerging variants, the Companies are prepared to respond if a variant of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates evidence of escaping immunity by the COVID-19 vaccine,\u201d Pfizer and BioNTech said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>The study said the vaccine was slightly less effective on mutations for the variant first found in South Africa compared to other mutations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Companies believe the small differences in viral neutralization observed in these studies are unlikely to lead to a significant reduction in the effectiveness of the vaccine,\u201d the companies said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pfizer study released Wednesday determined&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31165,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31164\/revisions\/31165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}